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2017: Chicago Homicides Outnumber U.S. Military Casualties 18 to 1
Cybercast News Service ^ | January 2, 2018 | 12:13 PM EST | Michael W. Chapman

Posted on 01/02/2018 9:24:06 PM PST by Olog-hai

There were 664 homicides in Chicago in 2017 and, for comparison, 37 casualties in the U.S. military in its myriad operations around the globe. That’s according to data from the Chicago Tribune and from the Department of Defense’s press office.

The Chicago deaths are for the period Jan. 1, 2017 through Dec. 31, 2017; the military deaths are from Jan. 1, 2017 through Dec. 22, 2017, which is the latest update on casualties by the DoD posted so far. (There may have been a few more military casualties in December.)

From the data available, it shows that Chicago suffered 17.9 times more homicides than the U.S. military worldwide — combat and non-combat related deaths — last year.

For Chicago, 664 homicides — murders by shooting or other means (not including suicides) — averages to 1.8 homicides every day of the year.

For the U.S. military, some of the deaths were combat related and some were non-combat related. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2017bluezones; chicago; chicagocrimes; chicagomurders; chiraq; deathtoll; homicides; obamalegacy; rahmemanuel

1 posted on 01/02/2018 9:24:06 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Provide useful education in high school including good defensive firearms training


2 posted on 01/02/2018 9:35:30 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Olog-hai

Well, then, why aren’t we running out of gangbangers?


3 posted on 01/02/2018 9:38:55 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Olog-hai

Singing “And the band played on” with an updated song “And the mayor danced on”.

“All hail Mr. Twinkletoes, Chicago’s finest”.

As Motel 6 might say to tourists in Chicago, “We’ll turn your lights out for you”.

In Chicago, when someone says “Duck”, they don’t mean the bird.


4 posted on 01/02/2018 9:46:02 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Olog-hai

I’m surprised it’s not more.


5 posted on 01/02/2018 9:54:34 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Olog-hai

It’s so terribly sad that even our most eminent criminologists appear unable to find a common thread for all this mayhem. Guess it’ll just have to continue forever. Dang.


6 posted on 01/02/2018 10:02:23 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: Olog-hai

I think the numbers would be many times higher were it not for strides in emergency medicine,,,,,,,, any poor marksmanship.


7 posted on 01/02/2018 10:11:15 PM PST by umgud
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To: Olog-hai; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

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8 posted on 01/02/2018 10:50:16 PM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: Olog-hai

L8r


9 posted on 01/02/2018 10:50:56 PM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society. And if the news does not fit)
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To: dsc

For every roach that gets squished.....


10 posted on 01/02/2018 11:45:37 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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umgud :" I think the numbers would be many times higher were it not for strides in emergency medicine,,,,,,,, (sic) and poor marksmanship." That Black Lives Matter (BLM) fixate on the 1.9% of whites shooting blacks clearly indicate how racist this organization actually is .. !
They ignored black on black crime
They ignored black on white crime
Chicago is an inconvenient war-zone which is ignored by government, the media, and the victims, themselves.
Welcome to the new reality of urban black values , urban black morality,
and urban black role models portrayed on television, and in 'Follywood Fantasy'..
.and then we wonder why so many blacks are in jail for violent crime...= B/S !
11 posted on 01/03/2018 3:41:13 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: dsc
Well, then, why aren’t we running out of gangbangers?

Chain production due to welfare paying the bay factories more for each budding gangbanger....

12 posted on 01/03/2018 4:38:39 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
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To: JennysCool

I am sure if we throw another few billion dollars at the problem it will be solved...or maybe not...


13 posted on 01/03/2018 5:05:23 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Olog-hai

Liberals kill.

It is what they do.

On the other hand, guns don’t kill. They are an inanimate tools whose purpose and results are the sole responsibility of the user.

Guns in the hands of liberals, despite the liberal’s demonstrated poor marksmanship, results in a lot of illegal and immoral homicides.


14 posted on 01/03/2018 5:22:24 AM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Olog-hai

Where does Code Pink stand on this? They were so concerned about casualties...


15 posted on 01/03/2018 5:23:06 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: bitt

So, you are at least ten times safer defending our Country, than living in Chicago!


16 posted on 01/03/2018 5:53:49 AM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Olog-hai

300+ in Baltimore, Memphis, no hard numbers just % increase over the 228 last year. The murder rate, however, decreased by 12.2 percent in Memphis following last year’s record 228 homicides. If the calculator is right 50 more.

Common thread BIG CITIES THAT ARE DEM CONTROLLED. HIGH POVERTY, BAD SCHOOLS.


17 posted on 01/03/2018 6:24:00 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: Olog-hai

punk ass negro gang members killing punk ass negro gang members.
No body really gives a damn.


18 posted on 01/03/2018 7:56:16 AM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: Olog-hai

What is really amazing about the numbers mentioned is the extraordinarily low number of U.S. casualties. Just operating the hardware can kill military folk due to accidents, training shortfalls, and other extraneous causes. Dying in a car wreck in a combat zone is considered a combat death. I have to wonder if the number given filters that kind of stuff out.


19 posted on 01/03/2018 8:36:56 AM PST by zeugma (I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Chicago is a mob town, and the mob is very involved in trafficking and black market organs.


20 posted on 01/14/2018 4:11:02 AM PST by greeneyes
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