Chicago Set to Crush Last Year's Murder Total

[wisemaniac]

Depending on which source you prefer, somewhere between 487 & 507 people were murdered in Chicago last year - 507 being the one I've seen referenced the most. As of today, with four whole months left to go in the year, Chicago is sitting at 492. August was the deadliest month in the windy city in 20 years.

 

[Rock98Dog]

Natural selection. On the bright side, that saves us somewhere between $5MM and $10MM in social assistance, millions more in future social assistance because of no more offspring, millions more in incarceration costs, etc.

Maybe Obama ignores it because he knows it's good for the budget.

 

[Walter Brennaneer]

Maybe Obama ignores it because he knows it's good for the budget.

Nah------he uses it to push his gun ban agenda. Black Lives don't matter to him...just his legacy.

 

[wisemaniac]

So with four months left, Chicago is now at 496 murders, only 11 short of hitting last year's total for the entire year.

If you use the last four months of 2015 to get an idea of what to expect this year, it's bleak. Using those numbers would likely be low-balling it by a lot. But let's say they average 42.25 murders a month, that's 169 more murders before 2016 is finished.

 

[Walter Brennaneer]

Trump is only one who wants to stop this and drugs coming across the border.

Why does the USA need a fat women that wears Mao’s fashion of the 70’s—Periodically shakes her head like Stevie Wonder—and has a NOSE longer the Trump’s projected wall?

 

[patsfan4life12]

Wow! That's a record I never thought we'd see broken. Good for them

 

[ThunderCat98]

This is both a dem and repub problem. Dems dont want citizens to defend themselves or cops to shoot bad guys, and repubs and the NRA dont want to give any concessions on the gun control issue. Both sides bitch whenever we try to increase penalties for firearms offenses.

 

[extragreen]

Number of murders per year in Chicago:


1970: 810[71]
1971: 824[72]
1972: 711[73]
1973: 862[74]
1974: 970[75]
1975: 818[76]
1976: 814[77]
1977: 823[78]
1978: 787[79]
1979: 856[80]
1980: 863[81]
1981: 877[82]
1982: 668[83]
1983: 729[84]
1984: 741[85]
1985: 666[86]
1986: 744[87]
1987: 691[88]
1988: 660[89][90]
1989: 742[91]
1990: 851[92]
1991: 928[93]
1992: 943[9
1993: 855[93]
1994: 931[93]
1995: 828[93]
1996: 796[93]
1997: 761[93]
1998: 704[93]
1999: 643[93]
2000: 633[93]
2001: 667[93]
2002: 656[93]
2003: 601[93]
2004: 453[93]
2005: 451[93]
2006: 471[93]
2007: 448[93]
2008: 513[93]
2009: 459[93]
2010: 436[93]
2011: 435[93]
2012: 516[94]
2013: 441[29]
2014: 432[29]
2015: 488[95]

 

[extragreen]

 

[Rock98Dog]

So what you're saying is that Obama has gotten us back to Clinton level murder numbers.

 

[extragreen]

So what you're saying is that Obama has gotten us back to Clinton level murder numbers.

So what you're saying is that one year equals a trend.

 

[wisemaniac]

Depending on which source a person chooses for their Chicago homicide statistics, they've either just matched or blown by last year's total.

 

[MARSHALL77]

This weekends results:

65 people shot, 13 of them fatally.

 

[SamSwimmer]

Cook County just surpassed 1,000 homicides & there's still a month left to go. It's been 27 years since they've had a murder count that high.

 

[HerdandHokies]

Was last year abnormally low? With the shut downs you’d think it would be.

 

[SamSwimmer]

Was last year abnormally low? With the shut downs you’d think it would be.

According to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office, in 2020 there were 921 homicides, 799 were gun-related

 

[Chevy1]

The twenty cities in the United States with the highest murder rates (murders per 100,000 people) are:

1. St. Louis, MO (69.4)
2. Baltimore, MD (51.1)
3. New Orleans, LA (40.6)
4. Detroit, MI (39.7)
5. Cleveland, OH (33.7)
6. Las Vegas, NV (31.4)
7. Kansas City, MO (31.2)
8. Memphis, TN (27.1)
9. Newark, NJ (25.6)
10. Chicago, IL (24)
11. Cincinnati, OH (23.8)
12. Philadelphia, PA (20.2)
13. Milwaukee, WI (20.0)
14. Tulsa, OK (18.6)
15. Pittsburgh, PA (18.4)
16. Indianapolis, IN (17.7)
17. Louisville, KY (17.5)
18. Oakland, CA (17.1)
19. Washington D.C. (17.0)
20. Atlanta, GA (16.7)

Cities with Most Murders 2024

 

[ThunderCat98]

Anyone notice a trend here? Anyone???

 

[greengeezer]

Number of murders per year in Chicago:


1970: 810[71]
1971: 824[72]
1972: 711[73]
1973: 862[74]
1974: 970[75]
1975: 818[76]
1976: 814[77]
1977: 823[78]
1978: 787[79]
1979: 856[80]
1980: 863[81]
1981: 877[82]
1982: 668[83]
1983: 729[84]
1984: 741[85]
1985: 666[86]
1986: 744[87]
1987: 691[88]
1988: 660[89][90]
1989: 742[91]
1990: 851[92]
1991: 928[93]
1992: 943[9
1993: 855[93]
1994: 931[93]
1995: 828[93]
1996: 796[93]
1997: 761[93]
1998: 704[93]
1999: 643[93]
2000: 633[93]
2001: 667[93]
2002: 656[93]
2003: 601[93]
2004: 453[93]
2005: 451[93]
2006: 471[93]
2007: 448[93]
2008: 513[93]
2009: 459[93]
2010: 436[93]
2011: 435[93]
2012: 516[94]
2013: 441[29]
2014: 432[29]
2015: 488[95]

If your numbers are correct, and I have no doubt they are, over 30,000 people have been murdered in Chicago since 1970. This isn’t a city, it’s a war zone.

 

[i am herdman]

The twenty cities in the United States with the highest murder rates (murders per 100,000 people) are:

1. St. Louis, MO (69.4)
2. Baltimore, MD (51.1)
3. New Orleans, LA (40.6)
4. Detroit, MI (39.7)
5. Cleveland, OH (33.7)
6. Las Vegas, NV (31.4)
7. Kansas City, MO (31.2)
8. Memphis, TN (27.1)
9. Newark, NJ (25.6)
10. Chicago, IL (24)
11. Cincinnati, OH (23.8)
12. Philadelphia, PA (20.2)
13. Milwaukee, WI (20.0)
14. Tulsa, OK (18.6)
15. Pittsburgh, PA (18.4)
16. Indianapolis, IN (17.7)
17. Louisville, KY (17.5)
18. Oakland, CA (17.1)
19. Washington D.C. (17.0)
20. Atlanta, GA (16.7)

Cities with Most Murders 2024

democrats do a hell of a job

 

[Chevy1]

If your numbers are correct, and I have no doubt they are, over 30,000 people have been murdered in Chicago since 1970. This isn’t a city, it’s a war zone.

Don't disagree with the high totals, but, as a comparison, Chicago has realized 6200 COVID deaths to date. If that trend continued, 30K deaths would be realized in 10 years vs the 50 year period you mentioned.

 

[i am herdman]

Don't disagree with the high totals, but, as a comparison, Chicago has realized 6200 COVID deaths to date. If that trend continued, 30K deaths would be realized in 10 years vs the 50 year period you mentioned.

what does have have to do with murdering someone?

 

[greengeezer]

The difference would be that COVID should be a memory in 10 years, murders won’t be.

 

[i am herdman]

The difference would be that COVID should be a memory in 10 years, murders won’t be.

Comparing murder and Covid is just bizarre.

 

[Chevy1]

what does have have to do with murdering someone?

It's a comparison Herdman...merely adds perspective. I don't deny the murder numbers are nuts, but COVID has killed far more people in the last two years in Chicago...with little or no discussion.

Also, as a comparison, there are worse cities in America than Chicago in terms of murder rate.