Chicago & Policing (new title)

[davidbfpo]

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:

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:

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