BuckyB93 wrote:From Jan. 1 through the end of July, there were 440 homicides in Chicago and 2,240 people shot, including many of those who were killed, according to statistics released Saturday by the police department.
July was especially violent, as the city recorded 105 homicides and 584 shootings. Among them was a 9-year-old boy who was killed Friday when someone opened fire in the direction of a number of people, including him and his friends, according to police.
There were 308 shootings and 44 homicides in July 2019.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-homicides-rose-by-139-percent-from-last-july-officials-say/2315318/
Doubt your are going to get hurt in the streets? Over 400 homicides in 7 months. I'm sure the cops played a key role in most of these. You seriously need your head examined.
I guess if the gunshot leads to instant death then you'd feel no pain and therefore not get hurt. Yeah, Chicago, sound like a great place for a relaxing vacation.
Yes... big numbers! OH NO!!!
Dude. Chicago is a big city. Start normalizing sh$t by population and you'll get different numbers.
2019 homicides saw Baltimore as the top city in the US (per population)... a city I love visiting and loved living in. #2 was St Louis, which seems like a sh$tty city, but mostly because it's in the midwest. (or were they swapped... I can't recall). Who knows where chicago was on that list....
2016 firearm deaths per population has #1 being Maryland, #2 Alaska, #3 Alabama, #4 Louisina, #5 Mississippi, #6 Oklahoma, #7 Missouri, #8 Montana, #9 New Mexico, #10 Arkansas....are you getting the pattern? Illinois was #33....
I joke about it... but I've lived in Baltimore, DC, San Francisco, spent a lot of time in Chicago. Never in my life had a problem. Never in my life was a personal victim of any crime more than vehicle vandalism. But the very first night we were out in the ass--end of nowhere Missouri, I end up just around the corner from a shooting.