Chicago & Policing (new title)

[Azor]

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.

[davidbfpo]

Azor,

I see that the linked report also refers to Baltimore and today the BBC News website has a four minute video on one young black teenager dying there. It refers to one hundred homicides so far in 2017.
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-u...ck-gunned-down

Horrible to learn the violence in such cities is higher than many other overseas conflicts.

[AdamG]

If you want statistics for Chicago, I suggest the following hyperlink

[davidbfpo]

Adam G,

Good catch that website; even mixes facts you didn't know or want to.

The main thread on Chicago, which is open and has 35k views will have this smaller thread (5.2k views) merged in:Chicago & Policing (new title)

[AdamG]

Good catch that website; even mixes facts you didn't know or want to.

People in the thick of it can be the best sources of unvarnished Truths.

[davidbfpo]

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:

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/

[davidbfpo]

Within an article on NYPD's use of "stop & frisk" there is this passage:

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