Baghdad vs Chicago....If there a different in 2008?

plenty of alcohol?

thanks for stopping by.

why is it surprising? chicago is an absolute dump

If WHAT?

is there no good news in chicago this year?...woops, sorry

"the is no good news in Chicago this year?..if so...please someone tell me what it is?" quote

Cub fans won't have to waste money on World Series tickets !

Chicago's homicide rate is 15 per 100,000 people. If your city is large then it will seem like you have a lot of people getting killed.

As a comparison (2004 stats):

Philadelphia: 22

Dallas: 20

Los Angeles: 13

New York: 7

New Oleans (2006): 72!

Top 10:

http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/large_MurderRates.gif

...and no you can't count Gary, IN as part of Chicago...although it might as well be.

Alan

I love that newark made the list, jersey is ridiculous

Camden should be up there though, it's the murder capitol of the US. Ridiculous and nothing will ever get done because the politicians don't care, they just want to collect checks for the various city jobs they are allowed to hold even if they present a conflict of interest. They funnel tax dollars into useless contracts and back into their salaries. Sad really

Chicago truely isn't that bad. Sorry

THeres been over 30 students killed this year from chicago public schools

What kind of a sentence you think Sharpe James is going to get? I thought he was untouchable .

Also, the stats can be skewed depending on the physical size of your city.

I think a better stat would be homicides per square mile.

Alan

A lot of those things didn't happen in Chicago, most notably the college shooting. You're kind of just taking everything bad that happened in Illinois and pinning it on Chicago.

Nice try though.

Not sure it is fair to include the NIU shooting (Dekalb) when counting Chicago murders unless you are including a 70 mile radius of Chicago in your counts.

drunkobserver wrote:

warning if traveling to Chicago in 2008

Murder after murder after murder that is the headline news in Chicago each and every night!

..so far in 2008....3 mass murders....mall shooting killing 5, college shooting killing...can't remember but at least 5, family shooting this week killing five....mother drowns child so she can party....another mother kills child with a knife.....school kids beating each other with baseball bats to death...etc....still have 7 months to go!

and they want to have the Olympics here?

the is no good news in Chicago this year?..if so...please someone tell me what it is?

Runningart2004 wrote:

Chicago's homicide rate is 15 per 100,000 people. If your city is large then it will seem like you have a lot of people getting killed.

As a comparison (2004 stats):

Philadelphia: 22

Dallas: 20

Los Angeles: 13

New York: 7

New Oleans (2006): 72!

I'm pretty sure Philly's murder rate has exploded since 2004, setting them on top with no challengers.

Runningart2004 wrote:

Chicago's homicide rate is 15 per 100,000 people. If your city is large then it will seem like you have a lot of people getting killed.

As a comparison (2004 stats):

Philadelphia: 22

Dallas: 20

Los Angeles: 13

New York: 7

New Oleans (2006): 72!

Philly homicide rate for the last two years has been 28 per 100,000.

2001 309

2002 288

2003 348

2004 330

2005 377

2006 406

2007 392

gah, i can't believe atl didn't make the rankings this yr... we are slipping.

How do you reduce the murder rate in your city? Annex the entire county. Worked for Louisville.

Louisville's murder rate is now about 10 per 100,000. Total homicides:

2007: 79

2006: 50

2005: 55

Population: 700,000

Before city/county merger the murder rate was about 15-20 and the official population was 250,000 for the old city.

Since most of your homicides are going to occur in urban centers, annexing the outlying county or country is a great way to reduce crime stats!

Alan

keanesburg french fries wrote:

What kind of a sentence you think Sharpe James is going to get? I thought he was untouchable .

Yeah, in fairness, Newark's current mayor seems to be a good guy so far. But jersey has a way of dirtying everyone.

No clue on Sharpe, hopefully it's harsh, the man spent so much taxpayer money on personal crap like trips, boats, etc. Horrible mayor and a huge reason why that city is so bad off. The worst part about him was how much he played the race card "you think im corrupt? you're just after me because i'm black"

It's all the liberals fault -- that and George Bush, for basically killing off all economic possibilities for the poor by allowing all his amigos from Mexico to come here and take jobs away from good, honest, negroes.

Nice Engrish.