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IL:Chicago Homicides for 2014
Gun Watch ^ | 3 January, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 01/04/2015 12:30:01 PM PST by marktwain




There is an independent site that tracks homicides in Chicago.  There are not affiliated with the police, and they use public sources to determine the number of homicides.  The numbers that they give include justified homicides and homicides by police.

The numbers are very similar in 2014 to what they were in 2013. 

                                      2013   2014

Homicides by shooting      375     388

Woundings by shooting    1810   2231

Total Homicides                455    456

It is interesting to note that ratio of wounded to killed went up form 4.82/1 to 5.75/1 in one year.

The site has a lot of great graphics depicting where people were shot (not surprising, head shots and torso shots are the most deadly), where they were shot geographically, and when they occurred.

It is a good resource for Chicago killings and shootings.  It would be nice if they would break out justified shootings, but those are harder to keep track of.  From a graphic on clearance rates, it appears that they would have been about a dozen self defense shootings this last year.

Chicago only has a clearance rate of 30% for homicides.

The site proclaims that it is "Illustrating Chicago Values".  It is heyjackass.com.

©2014 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included.
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TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2014review; banglist; blackmales; chicago; deathtoll; homicides; il; urban

1 posted on 01/04/2015 12:30:02 PM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Need a comparison of regions where gun carrying is lawful as compared to areas where it is illegal with an overlay of the demographic makeup of the population in those areas. I’m willing to bet there will be no surprises...: )


2 posted on 01/04/2015 12:36:44 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

^ of crime stats...


3 posted on 01/04/2015 12:37:11 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: marktwain

I’m calling B.S. on this report. There’s no way there’s 2,600 woundings and homicides by gun. Chicago has the toughest gun control in the nation. Everyone knows this.


4 posted on 01/04/2015 12:37:39 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

If only we could get criminals to obey gun-control laws. That point is always lost on liberals.


5 posted on 01/04/2015 12:50:43 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: ozzymandus

Well last summer I emailed Mayor Rhambo to call in the “Million Moms for Gun Control” (conveniently located nearby here in Indiana) into the ‘hood to clean out the guns.

So far, no reply....


6 posted on 01/04/2015 12:55:00 PM PST by nascarnation (....)
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To: marktwain

By today’s standards that equates to 125 years of riots and protests...IF black lives matter as much as they say.


7 posted on 01/04/2015 12:55:12 PM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: marktwain
entirely too primitive. they need something like this.
8 posted on 01/04/2015 12:57:25 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: marktwain
Can I offer the opinion that the substantial increase in survivable gunshots can be attributed to improvements in ER care for gunshot trauma?

If you have to get shot, do it across the street from Chicago's Northwestern Memorial ER. There are few places in the world where top drawer medical care and bullet wounds are so close to each other. The other nice thing is that, with the cost of gas going down, the costs to bribe cops, aldermen and judges are lower, in 2015 dollars, than ever. (As long as your target is Connected.)

9 posted on 01/04/2015 1:12:20 PM PST by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted...)
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To: marktwain

Looks like the ERs are getting a lot better at treating GSWs.


10 posted on 01/04/2015 1:27:33 PM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: jsanders2001

It was illegal to have a gun inside the city limits until recently and now its almost impossible to get one legally.


11 posted on 01/04/2015 2:35:28 PM PST by poinq
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To: poinq

> It was illegal to have a gun inside the city limits until recently and now its almost impossible to get one legally.

^ for a law abiding citizen


12 posted on 01/04/2015 2:46:53 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: marktwain
It's an important piece of work, a remarkably simple periscope up into reality for any of our prouder young people who have swallowed the fashionably post-modernist line of bull, issued from modern communists selling the corrupting notion that police are the "real perps."

When they are marshalling their more ridiculous forces these days, doesn't Chicago always come to mind as the best counter argument?

13 posted on 01/04/2015 2:52:30 PM PST by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: nascarnation

A “Million Moms” march through the ‘hood could provide some interesting TV.


14 posted on 01/04/2015 3:04:08 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: marktwain

388...how many black victims? How many black shooters? How many black victims killed by white cops? How many blacks killed by whites of *and* sort? I won’t ask the last question in that progression because that would be racist.


15 posted on 01/04/2015 4:42:30 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: Gay State Conservative

All of those questions are answered at the site, heyjackass.com.

The link is in the post.


16 posted on 01/04/2015 6:49:30 PM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Sorry, the number of black people shot by white cops is not there. Most of the questions are answered.


17 posted on 01/04/2015 8:02:43 PM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: marktwain

9 shot in Chicago on New Year’s Day

Posted: Jan 02, 2015 7:31 AM CST Updated: Jan 02, 2015 7:31 AM CST

CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -


18 posted on 01/05/2015 5:33:14 AM PST by KeyLargo
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