Posted on 08/01/2017 5:10:08 AM PDT by simpson96
The murder total in Chicago passed 400 with more than a week left in July, and the month ended with the city on pace to exceed the number of killings in 2016.
The city opened 2017 slightly behind the rate of killings in 2016, a year the city finished with 781 homicides, the first time in nearly 20 years that the city had logged more than 700 murders.
As of 11 p.m. Monday, the citywide homicide total was 409, with 74 killed in July. In 2016, the city did not reach 400 killings until Aug. 1.
The murders were not evenly distributed across the city, with the South and West Side neighborhoods of Austin and Englewood seeing the largest number of slayings.
Chicago is not alone among American cities in seeing an increase in bloodshed so far this year, said Jeff Asher, a crime statistician based in New Orleans. Asher noted a 4 percent increase in murders in 62 cities with more than 250,000 residents, in a post on FiveThirtyEight.com.
There are positive signs even in “jarring” figures on violence in Chicago, Asher said.
Shootings are down 13 percent in Chicago so far this year, according to CPD statistics, Asher said, meaning that while more people are dying of their wounds, fewer people are being shot.
“Gun violence is still persistently high in Chicago, relative to where it was two years ago,” Asher said. “But I look at shootings as a better metric overall of violence in the city, where murder [statistics] have some factor of randomness and luck.
“At some point, you will see some regression to the [arithmetic] mean.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
An interesting observation. About 75% of the killings happen on weekends. Which also represents almost all of the FMLA days taken off.
In a normal town of 50,000....if you had sixty people a year getting gunned down...they’d fire the chief of police, and everyone would start carrying weapons as they left the house each day.
Practice practice practice
How many of the murders go unsolved?
Things are looking up in ChiTown. While murder is up fewer people are being shot. I guess every cloud has a silver lining.
On the plus side, most of the murders in Chicago are scum killing scum at no net loss to society.
HEY MAN!!!! Black Lives Matter...where are you imbeciles?
No way these number can be sustained unless the gangs are actively bringing in reinforcements from elsewhere.
Be a real pity if every gang banger died mysteriously one day and all of the locals (whom the gangs had been terrorizing) swore that they neither heard nor saw anything....
It it wasn’t for LaSalle Street and the Board of trade I think Chicago would already be Detroit 2.0.
“In a normal town of 50,000....if you had sixty people a year getting gunned down...they’d fire the chief of police, and everyone would start carrying weapons as they left the house each day”
These shootings/killings make a good metaphor for the underlying rottenness of the Chicago political machine.
heyjackass.com suggests a homicide clearance rate around 13%.
That’s pathetic ...
“On the plus side, most of the murders in Chicago are scum killing scum at no net loss to society.”.......
Like a disease that continues until someone finds a cure, the shootings in Chicago will continue UNLESS, the no-mind street rats eventually all kill themselves........NEVER GONNA HAPPEN, they breed like rats.
I know it’s still young in the administration, but it was touted that the murders in places like Chicago would be going down, not on pace with last year or upward.
About a month ago, an article floated around about some city, I think Baltimore, planning a murder-free weekend. Anybody know how that went?
Ban weekends.
Only in Liberal Land is that a positive!
That must disappoint the Libs though...what with fewer people being killed by shooting.
Send more ammo....
That midnight basketball league just doesn’t have the same following anymore.
Just compile statistics Monday thru Friday morning.
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