Posted on 05/30/2012 6:35:02 PM PDT by SJackson
Obviously Illinois needs tougher gun control laws.
yeah, there’s also been a war going on in Afghanistan for the past 11 years.
I think we should go out into space and nuke the place. Ripley.
That is a very good point - such numbers are not very meaningful due to the differences in the effected population size. For example, the number of US soldiers who died in combat in Afghanistan (per 100,000) was 478 as of 2008 (those were the latest numbers I could find).
There were 440 Chicago citizens murdered last year, out of a population of 2,695,598. The article says that the murder rate so far this year was up 54%, bringing an estimate of this year’s total to 677. That works out to 23.7 deaths per 100,000 people.
Now, even if we reduce the population of Chicago to just 600,000 as you suggest, the rate still only bumps up to 112 per 100,000. There is likely some distortion - after all, soldiers posted in Bagram are likely far safer then troops on patrol Helmand, and I suspect that a significant number of those Chicago murders did take place in the rest of the city.
Still, while this death rate for Chicago is indeed shockingly high, it is less then a quarter of that of Afghanistan.
Isn’t the vast majority of killings in Chicago black on black violence?
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