Chicago "drinking from a firehose"
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Chicago police face overwhelming gun crime as 45 people shot over weekend; Police officials point to need for stricter gun laws after city suffers bloody Easter weekend in which nine people were killed
Link:http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ce-nine-killed
Spike in crime; morale slides: not good signs
Policing in Chicago has come to the attention of The Economist with a long article on the current position and the start of reforms:http://www.economist.com/blogs/democ..._police_force_
A couple of sentences illustrate CPD's problems:
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The last six months has been one of the worst periods in the CPD’s history....The number of people shot in Chicago so far this year passed 1,000 this week, six to nine weeks earlier than in the previous four years, according the Chicago Tribune. Murders rose 64% in the period from January 1st to April 17th. If current trends continue, as seems likely, Chicago’s murder rate will reach around 570 by the end of the year, up from 468 last year and 416 in 2014....One of the reasons for the spike in shootings and murders is the low morale of CPD officers. Many feel that they are doing a tough, unpopular job.
Thanks to a Chicago "lurker" for this graphic, which sadly says far more on the crime rate:http://heyjackass.com/#st_refDomain=...ery=/appsuite/
This might have an impact too
From a tweet by Brookings, which might just explain Chicago's problem, or those parts where murders are all too regular:
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If you shoot someone in Chicago, you have a 91% chance of getting away with it.
There maybe more in this report, which offers solutions to youth crime there:http://www.brookings.edu/research/po...1US0001-070602
'American carnage': Is Trump's bleak vision of the States justified?
Added here even if the focus is not Chicago, but the wider issue of murder in the USA.
The BBC's report does mention Chicago:
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In Chicago, murders rose sharply last year, with more than 760 last year compared with 473 the year before. Up to then, there had been
a steady fall in the number of murders since a peak of the early 70s.
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38911708
The Economist has been number crunching the figures for fifty cities producing some good charts. An interesting point made:
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Newark, just ten miles from New York City, has a murder rate nine times higher. And unlike New York, where homicides have fallen 85% from their peak in 1990, in Newark they have barely budged. Much of that difference can be explained by demography, deprivation and policing.
Link:http://www.economist.com/blogs/graph.../daily-chart-3
United States Gang Violence
By Patrick Burke at War is Boring:
Chicago’s Gang Wars Have Become Battles of Attrition
https://warisboring.com/chicagos-gan...-of-attrition/
When you analyze the data for American American homicides (as perpetrators and victims), and compare it to the Northern Ireland conflict, you can see that the number of homicides per capita per year is roughly 3X for the former. African Americans effectively live in low-level war zones on average.
Chicago goes high-tech in search of answers to gun crime surge
A detailed BBC article on CPD's use of technology, not 'big data' and with civilian analysts drafted in. It has several graphics.
This passage puzzles me, as surely this is the standard method of post-event investigation:
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Using a piece of predictive software called HunchLab, they translate the data into "missions", which can involve anything from talking to local business owners in certain areas to watching certain surveillance feeds at certain times.
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40293666
"Windy City" and the murder rate
From what I think is an obscure website https://www.zerohedge.com an article 'One-Third Of The 2016 Spike In U.S. Homicides Came From Just 5 Chicago Neighborhoods', which strikes me as rather polemical, here is an example:
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All the anti-cop self-righteousness in the world won’t save one victim from gang violence.
Link:https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...-neighborhoods
The article refers to the original work from a more typical in appearance news story, which is full of statistics:https://www.dailywire.com/news/25092...w-jared-sichel
Yes the recommended local website watching the mayhem is still going:http://heyjackass.com/
NYC -v- Chicago -v- Baltimore
Within an article on NYPD's use of "stop & frisk" there is this passage:
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As of December 27, New York City saw 286 homicides in 2017, down 12 percent from the previous year, itself a near-record low. That is a rate of about 3 per 100,000 population. By contrast, Chicago’s homicide rate for 2017 was about 24 per 100,000. The figure for Baltimore is about 56. There were more murder victims in Baltimore than in New York City in 2017, even though New York has nearly 14 times as many residents.
Link:http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...rvatives-wrong
The Critics of Proactive Policing Are Wrong
A different viewpoint, this time with a focus on NYC, although Chicago does appear (maybe the thread needs a new title?). The sub-title being:
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Public order creates a virtuous circle that enables neighborhoods to flourish
The author is not being "PC":
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The fact that should concern us all, and that should be at the forefront of discussions of crime and policing, is that blacks die of homicide at six times the rate of whites and most Hispanics combined.
Link:https://www.city-journal.org/html/cr...ong-15625.html