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Chicago’s Murder Rate Spirals Out of Control
PJ Media ^ | August 30, 2016 | Jack Dunphy

Posted on 08/31/2016 8:29:48 AM PDT by C19fan

We turn our attention once again to the city of Chicago, where, as of this writing, 2,858 people have been shot and 487 have been killed so far this year (both numbers will surely be higher by the time you read this). The website HeyJackass.com tabulates these and other figures related to crime in Chicago, and it reports that on average someone is shot every two hours and murdered every twelve. But these averages are for the year overall; we are now in the prime shooting season of summer, and the averages for August approximate to someone being shot every ninety minutes and murdered every eight hours. August, says the Chicago Tribune, has been the most violent month in Chicago in 20 years.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blm; murder
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/src on/MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! BLM/src off/ Soft on crime libertards can shove it too.
1 posted on 08/31/2016 8:29:48 AM PDT by C19fan
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So, what time is the lyin’ king gonna make an appearance and blame it on Trump and his kkk pals shipping guns to chirac.


2 posted on 08/31/2016 8:31:44 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: C19fan

The only time liberals show their false outrage is when they can pin the blame on Whitey. With the daily killings in major cities, there is no Whitey to blame, and so they are quiet.


3 posted on 08/31/2016 8:32:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: rktman

Am I the only one who doesn’t care about crime in Chicago. This morning I was reading about out of control gun violence in Chappaqua NY and I laughed. Rich Westchester liberals all going to vote for Killery.


4 posted on 08/31/2016 8:35:50 AM PDT by angcat (TRUMP!)
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To: I want the USA back

Black Lives just Don’t Matter in the ghetto... Sad.


5 posted on 08/31/2016 8:35:57 AM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." (Thomas Jefferson))
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“Am I the only one who doesn’t care about crime in Chicago. “

The people in Chicago don’t care, either. It’s mostly just two predominantly black neighborhoods and they are only killing each other. I saw an interview with a black mother who had lost two sons to drive-by shootings inside of a year. She abhorred the violence but didn’t indicate she would move to protect her other kids. Nor did she ask where are the cops. She was just describing it like it was a natural phenomenon. Angry, yes, but not enough to do something, like leave.


6 posted on 08/31/2016 8:40:45 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (`)
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To: C19fan

For the most part part criminals and scum eliminating each other


7 posted on 08/31/2016 8:41:04 AM PDT by uncbob
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I think the government should fund a study. “Is Chicago safer than any city in Syria?”


8 posted on 08/31/2016 8:41:25 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: C19fan

Black Lives Don’t Matter when blacks are slaughtering blacks.


9 posted on 08/31/2016 8:41:53 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for freedom is stronger than that of the Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
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To: C19fan

And the Democrats plan to reduce all of the murders in Democrat controlled Big cities is micro-stamping bullets, which has been tried a number of times in attempting to pass such laws in anti-gun states.

The NRA has explained for many years how it is unworkable, but that makes no difference to the Dims.

CHICAGO

State lawmaker wants to curb Chicago crime by tracking bullets

Posted 12:25 PM, August 30, 2016, by Tonya Francisco, Updated at 12:56pm, August 30, 2016

CHICAGO — An Illinois State Representative from Chicago is addressing the violence epidemic in the city, in a different way.

Rep. Sonya Harper, D-Chicago, represents some of the most crime-ridden communities, including Englewood and the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

Harper introduced her plan Tuesday for a bill that would require ammunition makers to stamp serial numbers on every bullet sold in Illinois.

Harper says shootings would go down, because it would be easier to track providers of illegally acquired ammunition.

http://wgntv.com/2016/08/30/state-lawmaker-wants-to-curb-crime-by-tracking-bullets/

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 06:15PM
CHICAGO (WLS) —
An Illinois state lawmaker plans to propose a bill that would require serial numbers be stamped on all ammunition sold in Illinois.

State Rep. Sonya Harper, D-Chicago, believes that serial numbers would help track bullets and help police identify those who are illegally distributing ammunition.

“We’re not trying to get rid of responsible gun owners guns, we just want to know how the guns and the bullets are getting into the hands of our youth and causing senseless harm and murder,” Harper said.

Harper was joined on Tuesday by several state lawmakers, Chicago aldermen and others in support of the proposal.

Harper said she hopes to file the bill later this week.

http://abc7chicago.com/news/il-state-lawmaker-wants-serial-numbers-stamped-on-ammunition-/1491724/


NRA LINK:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20080801/why-microstamping-and-bullet-serializat


10 posted on 08/31/2016 8:42:37 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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The man who organized that community wants the carnage to continue as an excuse to disarm Americans.


11 posted on 08/31/2016 8:42:44 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: C19fan

Leftism and its identity politics are deadly.


12 posted on 08/31/2016 8:44:02 AM PDT by bkopto
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The best way to keep guns out of the hands of criminals is to keep them in jail.


13 posted on 08/31/2016 8:45:01 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Chicago’s Murder Rate Spirals Out of Control


14 posted on 08/31/2016 8:51:04 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: C19fan

Just look at most African countries to better understand what is going on in Chicago. Destructive societies have no boundaries.


15 posted on 08/31/2016 8:53:34 AM PDT by soycd
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The people of Chicago keep getting their money's worth out of their elected officials...

Like California, the folks just can't seem to figure it out.

Democrats good.  Republicans screw up everything... as if.


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16 posted on 08/31/2016 8:53:36 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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>She was just describing it like it was a natural phenomenon.

It is natural when you are raised to behave like savages.


17 posted on 08/31/2016 8:56:11 AM PDT by soycd
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To: KeyLargo
And the Democrats plan to reduce all of the murders in Democrat controlled Big cities is micro-stamping bullets, which has been tried a number of times in attempting to pass such laws in anti-gun states.

I have a better idea. Why don't they pass a law requiring all Chicagoans to file flight plans for their bullets before they're allowed to fire weapons in Chicago since the "Gun Free Zones" signs aren't working. </sarc>

18 posted on 08/31/2016 8:58:57 AM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: C19fan

Somehow the privilege of my Polish immigrant grandparents are to blame.


19 posted on 08/31/2016 9:09:55 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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Detroit is still much more dangerous and has a much higher murder rate than Chicago.

Chigcago's not even in the Top 10 for most dangerous big cities in the USA.

Ten Most Dangerous Cities over 200,000 people

Here is a short summary of the data on the site. They rank them by overall violet crime rates, but I'll just give you the murder rate stats here:

1. Detroit: Murder rate: 44/100,000 people.
2. Memphis: 21/100,000 people
3. Oakland: 20/100,000 people
4. St. Louis 50/100,000 people
5. Birmingham, AL: 25/100,000 people
6. Milwaukee: 15/100,000 people
7. Baltimore: 34/100,000 people
8. Cleveland: 16/100,000 people
9. Stockton: 49/100,000 people
10.Indianapolis: 16/100,000 people

Chicago's murder rate is about 18 per 100,000. Less than 1/2 that of many of the cities on this list, like Detroit, Stockton , Baltimore and St. Louis.

Just for giggles - Derived from this Wikipeida page let's look at the Cities over 200,000 people with the highest black population:

1. Detroit 83%
2. Birmingham 73%
3. Baltimore 63%
4. Memphis 63%
5. New Orleans 60%
6. Montgomery 57%

New Orleans is the only "very black" city that isn't on the Top 10 murder list.

What about the cities that are on the murder list, but don't make Wikipedia's blackest cities list? What is there percent?

#3 Oakland: 28% Black (and only 34% White, a true polyglot) #4 St. Louis: 47% #6 Milwaukee: 40% #8 Cleveland: 53% #9 Stockton: 12% (only 37% White) #10 Indianapolis: 27%

20 posted on 08/31/2016 9:13:31 AM PDT by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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