One Third of Last Year’s Homicide Increase in the US Due To Chicago

[txradioguy]

Maybe Mayor Rahm will want to re-think that whole ‘no troops in my town’ attitude . . . ONE-THIRD Of U.S. Homicide Spike Coming From 5 Chicago Neighborhoods

Murders in the U.S. rose nearly 9% last year, and one-third of that increase came from just a few neighborhoods in Chicago, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of the FBI’s annual 2016 publication, Crime in the United States.

While violent crime (homicide, rape, assault, and robbery) also rose nationwide from 2015 to 2016 — over 4% — the data show the increase was not uniform, but rather concentrated in cities like Chicago and Baltimore.

Do tell. It’s almost as if the city’s catch-and-release law enforcement system isn’t really working. Oh, and there’s this:

Interestingly, the paper’s neighborhood-by-neighborhood analysis claimed that areas where homicides spiked had a “lighter street presence by police following officers’ high-profile killings of young black men.”

Can you say “Ferguson effect”? Maybe the Windy City’s worst neighborhoods are becoming unofficial no-go-zones for Chicago’s finest.

In Chicago, as in Baltimore, police became less proactive following protests against the fatal 2014 shooting of a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, by a white police officer, Jason Van Dyke, who has been charged with first-degree murder.

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/12/daniel-zimmerman/one-third-last-years-homicide-increase-us-due-chicago/

[Fishrrman]

Really, folks.

Who actually -cares- what happens in Chicago anymore?

It's like caring about San Francisco or Berkeley.

The folks in those places get the governance and environment that they vote for.
Let them live with it!

[Applewood]

Only one-third?  I would have thought it was much more. 

Really tragic what liberalism/socialism and the gimmedat mentality have done to wreck a once wonderful city.

[Wingnut]

Rahmbo runs a tight ship in the Chicago Morgue.  It's to die for.