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originally posted by: Greven
a reply to: Bluntone22
Thing is, people emphasize Chicago a lot like it's abnormally high.
Well, part of the 'high' reason is due to population. St. Louis has a much higher homicide per 100,000 rate, as do Baltimore, New Orleans, and Detroit. Chicago doesn't even make the world top 50 at below 20 per 100,000. It barely makes #25 in the U.S.. For some perspective, West Palm Beach, FL had a higher rate at #15 (21 homicides per 100,000).
e: also I just found a vulnerability... if you use a less than symbol, it hides that a post has been edited.
originally posted by: PolkaDot
a reply to: xuenchen
Well, we have to be sensitive to and not question black culture.
“So what’s happening, and this is ironic, is that a movement with the goal of saving black lives at this point is getting black lives taken, because 80 percent of our murder victims here in Chicago are male blacks,” he said, during a New Year’s Day radio interview, adding that BLM fuels lawlessness by advocating “non-compliance” with police. “The simplest way to describe it is that we have created an environment where we have emboldened criminals and we are hamstringing the police.”
originally posted by: Greven
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: xuenchen
Pretty bad when you have a city where 4 shot to death is not out of the ordinary.
Did you look at the historical figures near the bottom?
1955-1976 10,910 ~519/yr
1976-1979 2,408 ~602/yr
1979-1983 3,202 ~640/yr
1983-1987 3,295 ~659/yr
1987-1989 978 ~489/yr
1989-2011 14,653 ~666/yr
2011- 3,003 ~500/yr
Pretty much normal for Chicago.
A man shot to death Sunday afternoon on the West Side became at least the 500th person to die in a homicide in Chicago in 2017, according to Tribune data.
In 2016, the city marked its 500th homicide in late August, according to Tribune data. So far in 2017, the number of homicides is down about 7 percent, from 538 during the same period in 2016.
originally posted by: toysforadults
originally posted by: thesaneone
When I look to see what's happening on scanner radio on Friday and Saturday nights Chicago is alway the #1 in their top 50 and usually by 2000.
I usually try to blame white supremacist.
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: lightedhype
Never saw it.
Is there a thread here?
At least let us in on the MSM articles.
originally posted by: hutch622
Chicago has more murders annually than the whole of Australia , but you know second amendment and all makes it all good . More guns will stop crime blah blah blah.
originally posted by: hutch622
Chicago has more murders annually than the whole of Australia , but you know second amendment and all makes it all good . More guns will stop crime blah blah blah.