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.
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Link to Gun Watch
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...: )
^ of crime stats...
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.
If only we could get criminals to obey gun-control laws. That point is always lost on liberals.
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....
By today’s standards that equates to 125 years of riots and protests...IF black lives matter as much as they say.
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.)
Looks like the ERs are getting a lot better at treating GSWs.
It was illegal to have a gun inside the city limits until recently and now its almost impossible to get one legally.
> 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
When they are marshalling their more ridiculous forces these days, doesn't Chicago always come to mind as the best counter argument?
A “Million Moms” march through the ‘hood could provide some interesting TV.
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.
All of those questions are answered at the site, heyjackass.com.
The link is in the post.
Sorry, the number of black people shot by white cops is not there. Most of the questions are answered.
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