A Picture is Worth 513 Murders
January 11th, 2013 - 10:40 am
Check out this infographic from Red Eye Chicago. It maps where the cities 513 murders took place in 2012. The thing to keep in mind is, that’s not one dot per murder, but one dot per block where a murder (or murders) took place. To get the full effect, they’d have to have used a lot more dots.
A lot more. That’s a 15% increase just since 2011, when Chicago was still the nation’s deadliest city.
I do find it interesting when King Richard II was sitting on the throne, the impression was it wasn’t this bad.
Normally I’d say “hey, that says homicides, not murders; what about legitimate defensive shootings by law-abiding folk?”
But this is Chicago, and that’s effectively 100% illegal.
So yeah, it probably literally is all murders (or “defensive shootings by a criminal who was unlawfully armed and happened to be jumped by another criminal”, which while not quite morally murder is close enough in this context), especially since police shootings aren’t included.
https://portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/News/Statistical%20Reports/Murder%20Reports/MA11.pdf
Lived and worked in this city for 50 years. Born there, although raised in childhood in the northern suburbs.
Nobody is going to want to talk about this, but take a look at the statistics.
Who are the offenders? Who are the victims? By age, sex, race, motive, and weapon?
What neighborhoods are these taking place in?
This is a gang and drug problem, with some domestic violence thrown in. There are very, very few white or Asian victims statistically speaking. Blacks and Hispanics are the primary victims.
A HUGE percentage are those with prior felony convictions. Meaning, these are career criminals. Quite often killing each other. Or their girlfriends/wives.
Over 90% male. Usually in their 20′s or 30′s. Sometimes teens.
But nobody is going to want to talk about it. It simply doesn’t fit the media narrative. Or the Democratic Party narrative. Or the Hollywood narrative. Or the academia narrative.
But, those are the facts. And…they are indisputable.
On the Washington Post website, there’s an interactive map of D.C. homicides 2000-11
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/investigative/homicides/?tid=rr_mod
which you can filter by year, neighborhood, case status, victim race or age, motive and manner. Easy to use and most instructive; I wish they’d had victims’ prior convictions, though.