Imagine
By Mitch Berg
Chicago on track to be the murder capitol of the US:
Chicago is the Second City in nickname and the third in population, but when it comes to murder, the city has the dubious distinction of being second to no city in America.
As CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reports, the Chicago Sun-Times pointed out on Friday that Chicago has seen 426 homicides this year through Tuesday, compared with 417 in New York and 302 in Los Angeles.
At the end of 1998, Chicago made international headlines as the U.S. “murder capital” after surpassing New York’s homicide totals for the first time ever. Chicago shed that dubious distinction when murders plummeted over the last decade.
Per capita it’s even worse:
There are more than 8 million people in New York, compared to slightly under 3 million in Chicago. The population of Los Angeles exceeds that of Chicago by more than 800,000.
Whew. Imagine how much worse it’d be if Chicago didn’t in effect ban gun ownership by law-abiding civilians!
October 28th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I recall being in Chicago during the last spike in crime (early 1990’s?) and seeing a policeman stationed on each block and corner in the relatively safe loop.
We should have a contest..see who can come up with the funniest community organizer line.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
The scary thing is that I’m pretty sure that Chicago murders were up around 1000 each year not too long ago. LA’s were similar, New York’s up around 1500 annually.
October 29th, 2008 at 8:48 am
“Obama: he’ll do for the rest of the country what he did for Chicago. Duck.”