Posted on 11/30/2021 3:14:46 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
With a month left in the year, Cook County has logged more than 1,000 homicides for the first time in 27 years.
As of Tuesday midday, the medical examiner’s office had recorded 1,009 murders — 100 more than this time last year.
The youngest person killed was a 1-month-old boy, the oldest an 84-year-old man. More than half the people murdered were under the age of 30.
Black people made up 81 percent of homicide victims and Latinos made up nearly 15 percent, the medical examiner’s office said.
The most homicides on record for any year in Cook County is 1,229 in 1991, according to the office. The last time the county passed 1,000 murders was in 1994 with 1,141. Last year, the toll was 986 and, the year before that, 675.
More than three-quarters of the homicides this year — 777 — have been in Chicago, where murders and shootings are both above all of last year, according to city data. Like the county, the city has not seen such levels of gun violence since the early and middle 1990s.
At least 4,105 people have been shot in Chicago this year, 8.1% more than last year and 69% more than in 2019.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
They need more gun control (sarc)
Blundering Back Bitter...
They need to defund the police.
Lets do the math... the common denominator is not blacks, but they factor in.
I live on the edge of the hood and feel safe.
So if you are white you have a very small chance of being murdered in Chicago. Just stand back and let nature handle the problem.
I have a great idea on how to cut the Chicago murder rate by 96%.
A people always get the kind of government they deserve.
To Serve Man in Cook County...
Shockeye of the Quawncing Grig was an Androgum cook aboard Space Station Camera. He had a yearning for human flesh, and tried several times to kill and eat Jamie McCrimmon and Peri Brown. Along with fellow Androgum, Chessene of the Franzine Grig, and scientist Dastari, Shockeye allied with a legion of Sontarans, including Group Marshal Stike and Major Varl, to kill all the humans
This is RACIST! We need to start killing more white people!
Makes me wonder if funeral home owners are behind these murders to increase their profits/counteract Biden’s inflation?
Just teens, what’s it matter?
I suspect 987 of them had dark skin.
It’s on the agenda
Eventually there will no longer be any Democrat voters. They will all kill each other.
It's the Demagogic Party's fault.
Safe or secure?
With maybe the exception of Asians in the US the majority of people who are victims of violent crimes will be of the same race as their attacker.
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