Posted on 07/31/2016 1:20:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
Much of the media focus centering on the Republican and Democratic conventions dealt with the contrast between Donald Trump’s “dark vision” of America as opposed to Hillary Clinton’s cheerful, optimistic outlook. For proof of this, the Democrats chose to selectively highlight various statistics which show that, overall, crime rates in the United States remain lower now than they were during the historically high levels seen in the eighties and early nineties. That much is certainly true, but it’s equally accurate to point out that in certain places things have gotten considerably worse over the last several years, primarily in large, urban centers. A new report out of Chicago this month demonstrates the truth in that observation, particularly when it comes to the murder rate in the Windy City. (Chicago Tribune)
Chicago’s per capita homicide rate climbed over the last decade, and the chances of an African-American being killed in the city spiked drastically, according to a new report.
From 2005 to 2015, the city went from 17.3 homicides per 100,000 residents to a rate of about 18.8, according to a report from the Injury Prevention and Research Center at the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
But the report held particularly troubling news for African-Americans. The rate for blacks in Chicago jumped from 36.1 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2005 to 46.5 a decade later. Other studies have shown steep drops in the city’s African-American population in recent years, but crime figures remain stubbornly high in many largely black neighborhoods.
These are some pretty bleak figures, most especially for black residents of Chicago. The murder rate for whites has stayed relatively flat, even decreasing slightly to 2.7 per 100,000 residents in 2015. For Hispanic residents, there was a small increase to 11.3 homicides per 100,000. But for black citizens, the numbers are staggering. Their overall murder rate rose to 36.1 and for young black people aged 20 to 24 it was 64.3. This was far and away the leading cause of death for Chicago residents in that demographic.
Of course, the authors of the study are seeking to treat this as a health epidemic rather than a failure of generations of Democratic policies. That keeps them in line with the general theme of liberals who want the Centers for Disease Control to issue “studies” on gun violence as a medical issue.
“Gun violence remains the leading cause of death for young people in Chicago,” Karen Sheehan, an emergency room physician and medical director of the Injury Prevention and Research Center, said in a news release. “If we truly want to prevent firearm injuries and death, we will treat this like the public health crisis it is and invest in understanding and addressing this epidemic.”
All of this is leaving Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a tough spot. He’s got a city full of protesters who want him to “do something” about police shootings of suspects, but at the same time the entire city is on edge over their rising murder rate. Perhaps rather than asking the current mayor to do something, the voters of Chicago and the rest of Illinois could consider bringing in some different people with a new plan.
If the mayor of Ciraq was a lilly white Christian male, you bet the msm, Sharpton, Jackson, et. al., would be all over these statistics.
But...
Hussein Obama said violent crime is down. I guess he didn’t get the memo.
Also, former attorney general Eric Holder said they were going to evaluate the way the FBI did crime statistics. I felt he was trying to find a way to cover for black violence. I am wondering if they ever changed the way they calculate or record their statistics. I wonder if they went to some sort of fuzzy math like they do with the employment numbers (reducing the size of the labor force).
What is it, do Blacks get a bounty for killing each other?
Go figure.
Then they whine about the man, the police, all those evil White people.
Just quit shooting each other! Good grief, I care more for your racial bothers and sisters and children than you folks do.
Keep electing Democrats. Keep proving you’re all very stupid or crazy.
This means the heroin drug trade is increasing as Mexican poppy fields are increasing production and more heroin is getting through our porous borders. Almighty God, stop this! We need Donald J. Trump to make it happen.
Further proof of global warming.
give good quality firearms training (safety and shooting) in high schools (like used to be quite common across America)....
offer shooting sports in HS too (target practice, skeet, whatever can be provided)... on both individual and team, personal and competitive bases)
THEN...what would be new, not commonly done before....... offer every graduate a good pistol or rifle (at low wholesale purchase price, free if actual genuine need) for them to defend themselves (and their neighbors and families) in Chicago
the crime rate will go down BIG TIME
oh yes, flush all the (illegal) ‘gun control laws’ down the damnmmed toilet where they belong
I guess all those gun control laws just aren’t enough.
How to stop the shootings? Poison the drugs coming into chicago
Hillary’s vision is of unicorns jumping in Strawberry Fields forever.
She’s delusional.
Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It’s getting hard to be someone
But it all works out
It doesn’t matter much to me
Let me take you down
‘Cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
There is a brutal truth in your post.
The rats have mastered the art of lying with statistics.
Concealed carry is legal in Chicago.
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I have had that idea before. Not just Chicago. I was thinking more like the drugs being smuggled into our prisons. Not a lot of “innocent bystanders” in there.
Since 2014.
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