Despite the most restrictive gun laws in the entire United States, Chicago had an appalling 532 murders committed in 2012. Most of them involving guns. And most of them committed by black people against black people.
Well done, Chicago. Well done.
In 2012, 532 people were murdered in the city of Chicago, according to statistics compiled by the Crime in Chicago website. The number of people murdered the year before was 441, meaning in the city of Chicago, murders have increased by 91 from 2011 to 2012.
The Chicago Police Department was not available to confirm these numbers today, which is New Year’s Day.
The website also claims that, through December 25, 2012, there 2,670 people were shot in Chicago last year. That’s also an increase from the year before, when 2,217 people were shot in Chicago that year.
In all, it means that on average almost 1.5 people were murdered in Chicago each day last year, while on average 7.3 people were shot each day.
Update: Looks like 2013 is taking up right where 2012 left off:
Chicago Starts Year with 15 People Shot In Less Than 48 Hours bit.ly/YRnfsP
— Duane Lester (@Bodhi1) January 2, 2013
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[...] the streets of Chicago, after our city, the most gun-controlled in the nation, ended the year with 532 murders. This time, at a meeting to discuss housing foreclosures and the corrupt system of redevelopment [...]
I think that the problem is with the shortage of cops on the streets (beat officers). Not a majority but a good number of cops are assigned to security detail of the pols at City Hall (you know the names I’m sure). The rest are simply powereless against the organized crime (read: the gangs) w/in the city because of the lamentable shortage.
Previous superintendent Weis truly dropped the ball on the fight against gangs and McCarthy (although a much better leader) inherited a broken dept from Weis.
Prosecution of gang members has also been weak. A joke really!!! Chicago is intent on making a law abiding citizen jump through hoops but does not give a rat’s ass about getting tough on crime and protecting the inhabitants here (unless of course you are Emanuel’s kid).
An article on the shortgage of cops and Rahm follies here:
http://www.suntimes.com/17223801-761/rahm-emanuels-police-deployment-shuffle.html
To solve any problem you must get to the root of the issue–the Cause of Gun Violence and Suicide is Poverty and Mental Illness.
For example, Chicago’s poverty rate among black people is #1 in the nation at 32.2% AND Chicago leads the nation in Gun Murders in 2012 (over 500).
Mental Illness = Reason for Mass Shootings and the #1 cause of death by injury in the USA–Suicides.
SOLUTIONS:
-Raise the Federal Minimum Wage: Currently 45% below the 1968 rate AFI.
-Gang/Suicide Prevention: Early school-based social skills training, counseling, mentoring, and parent training for early detection.
-Education Finance Reform: More funding for poorest schools.
-Incentives for Job Creation in poor areas.
-Job Training for at risk youth.
-Drug Treatment costs ~75% less than prison and re-arrest rates are ~26% lower.
Oh please! What you are suggesting is the same old bullshit of funneling money to leftard programs that ends up in leftard politician pockets.
Try:
1. Don’t have a baby out of wedlock
2. Finish high school.
3. Don’t get married before age 20.
4. Don’t do drugs or join a gang, lead a moral life.
True change requires personal responsibility so don’t expect it to happen. I love the job training for at risk youths. lol What are you going to train the little morons to do? Shoot hoops?
Such leftist dribble, I’m surprised you didn’t include a ban on firearms in your list of solutions.
It’s government actions that have created the insane bastards running around murdering innocent people. We need less government, more freedom and personal responsibility if we are ever to correct societies problems.
Still, I have to laugh at the idea of raising the minimum wage. Why not make it $250 an hour, or even better, $500 an hour? The cost associated with it will just drive the cost of goods and services to rise proportionately, anyway.
Raising minimum wage will just mean small business will have to fire more employees. Smart…
Also, all these mass shooters had access to mental health care.
So, more government is the answer? Spend more money on more failed government programs designed to persuade a failed culture to stand on their own two feet?
No.
The above comment listed a white-hut petition as its website and included a link to sign the petition promoting this view. I removed the linkage to the absurd petition; it was petition whoring.