Welcome to Chicago, also known as Murder City, USA.
The powers that be love to massage the numbers, but here’s the bottom line: Despite the brutally cold weather in January this year, Chicago’s criminal class racked up an average of a murder a day and overall criminal violence was up 40% over last year.
What’s more, among that violence were lots of folks who got shot and didn’t die, thanks to modern medicine.
(ABC7 Chicago) – Chicago police have released their first crime report of 2015, and it’s up slightly from last year.
There were eight more murders this January compared to last year. There were also 31 more shootings compared to last January, and 38 more shooting victims.
We sauntered over to HeyJackass.com for the low-down on the crime numbers. The fine folks at Hey Jackass dissect the crime data for all sorts of analysis, ranging from the humorous (“Shot-in-the-ass-o-meter” and “Shot-in-the-junk-o-meter”) to the more serious demographics of the perpetrators and victims.
This one is tragic.
In the violence so far this year, all of the identified suspects were black, and nearly all of the victims were black.
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