Last week the Chicago Tribune pointed out that nearly 100 people had been shot in Chicago in less than a week. 9 people were killed on Monday alone marking the deadliest day for the city in 13 years. Now, with weekend data out, turns out the story is even worse. For the week ended 8/13, a total of 110 people were shot in Chicago with 24 of them killed. YTD statistics indicate the city is spiraling out of control with total shootings up to 2,621, a mere ~50% YoY increase, with 445 total homicides.
The current homicide rate through August indicates the city is on pace for over 700 homicides in 2016, a 63% increase from 2015 (see chart below).
Below are a couple of stats from HeyJackass! Daily shootings continue to average around 10-20.
Total YTD shootings through July 2016 are trending at a 50% YoY increase.
A stunning map reveals Chicago’s deadliest neighborhoods. Chicago’s Austin neighborhood has recorded the most shootings in 2016 at 313 but Englewood wins the prize for most homicides at 54.
And all of this – as we pointed out previously – In continued defiance of the Democrat narrative calling for stricter gun laws, Chicago’s homicide problem just keeps getting worse despite gun laws that are already among the most restrictive in the country. If fact, even the New York Times described Chicago’s gun laws as some of the “toughest restrictions,” saying:
Not a single gun shop can be found in this city because they are outlawed. Handguns were banned in Chicago for decades, too, until 2010, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that was going too far, leading city leaders to settle for restrictions some describe as the closest they could get legally to a ban without a ban. Despite a continuing legal fight, Illinois remains the only state in the nation with no provision to let private citizens carry guns in public.
Finally, despite some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country, 87% of homicides were committed with firearms, up from 79% in 2010. So how could the city that has the toughest gun laws in the country, laws described as the “closest they could get legally to a ban without a ban,” also have some of the highest gun-related homicide rates? Could it be, that criminals looking to use weapons for violence have a lower propensity to follow laws and that by banning guns you’re really just taking them out of the hands of law-abiding citizens that wouldn’t have used them for violence anyway? Just a thought.
Toronto is similar in size Chitcago had 32 homicides in 2015.
Yeah, but it’s pretty hard to kill someone with poutine.
Bullshit. Poutine death rate is 99%. Moose get the other 1%.
You’re not diverse enough yet. According to Wiki
Toronto as of the 2011 NHS census blacks were 8.5 % and whites 50.2%.
Chicago as of 2010 was 32.9% black and 45% white.
Diverse enough are you kidding. Toronto is a majority ethnic city now. Before all you Yanks jump on me I was just pointing out that the problem isnt Guns. It is too many Baby Mommas and Thugs running wild on streets. I dont know what the solution is to problem but I think the disfunction in Black community needs to be discussed in the light of day. As it stands now community activists in Chicago and elsewhere, think Obummer, talk too much about oppression and disenfranchisement rather than responsibility. As long as pundits on CNN are handing these people excuses the people running wild on streets will feel justified killing each other and whitey as well. They will continue to show everyone how serious they are about protesting by burning their own neighbourhoods to the ground as they are right now in Millwakee.
It isnt a gun control problem it is a black control problem.
Rob, um, sarcasm.
Maybe
Hardly matters……
🙂
Toronto advertises its diversity. If you’re 1/8 aboriginal you’re a “visible minority”. Greeks, Italians, Spaniards and Hungarians are considered people of color. I think they even count white guys with dreadlocks and people with tattoos.
What percentage of Black’s is the population is Toronto?
Most killings in Chicago are Black gangsters killing each other, followed by blacks simply killing each other for no real reason followed by other minorities for the same reasons.
Half or more of the murders in Chicago happen in only six police districts which happen to average 90+% Black people.
9 dead in one day, but still they missed this one:
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You left out which race is doing the shooting. I was going to say killing, but their aim is so fucking bad it’s pathetic.
Of course their aim is terrible, most fo them aren’t allowed to own guns anyway, so they risk instant arrest if they try to practice shooting. There probably aren’t a lot of ranges for them to practice in anywhere is the city, so they don’t. Plus, they are probably shooting with the cheapest, shittiest ammo in existence anyway. Steel cased FMJ tulammo is my guess. The weakest ammo Ive ever shot.
The “city” is not out of control… just a few blocks on the far south and far west sides of the cities. Most of the city, or at least the north, near west, and near south sides, are totally calm and in control, less a few scattered incidents here and there. I feel no sense of emergency in my far north neighborhood, or any of the areas in the near north or south loop that I regularly travel to.
What is so ridiculous is that these areas are only a few dozen square blocks in area, and are far from where most of us live or work. Moreover, everyone in these areas knows who the perps are, and that they are returned to the streets over and over by judges who do not do their jobs and hand down laughably light sentences for serious crimes, until the perps themselves are done in by a faster gun.
This sad state is the result of the loose philosophy that we white people have lived and ruled by for decades, which is: just let them kill each other. Well, that’s what’s happening. We have let these thugs become a law unto themselves.
But most white folk in this city don’t care. After all, none of this is happening in the nice white north side neighborhoods…. until Section 8 housing comes in, and suddenly it is happening on your own block.
We’re the victims of our own apathy and hypocricy.
Maybe true right now but for how long. Looks like the wildings have escaped their pens in Millwaukee and are hunting for whitey.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/08/14/milwaukee-riot-beating-every-white-person/
“Criminals looking to use weapons for violence have a lower propensity to follow laws and by banning guns you’re really just taking them out of the hands of law-abiding citizens that wouldn’t have used them for violence anyway? ”
FIFY.
Dey’s jist like us, only dey has bin oppressed by da white man
My first thought was that Hillary is losing valuable voters.
My second thought is the dead still vote democrat especially in Chicago…
Robert in Nova Scotia , you’re not as dumb as I thought but you’re not as smart as you could be .You do have potential.Carry on
turtle brain.
Geeze thanks bb.
You made my day.
High praise indeed from a guy who can scarcely string a sentence together.
Maybe the city should set up a free gun range in the area. The government gives everything else for “free.”. At least that way, the blacks can work on their aim. That would also stop clogging up the hospital trauma units and putting people on disability. And no, I am not being sarcastic.
Living outside the beltway of Baltimore and working between three cities all run by liberal POS white and black but mostly black , sadly these Black Lives Matter assholes need to look in the mirror ! In Baltimore alone they spend more per pupil in schools and can’t even keep the fucking water fountains working . The Baltimore school system was studied and copied nation wide 30 to 40 years ago now students graduate and need remedial reading and math and surprise look who bee’s in charge , a bunch of half wit blacks that generally speaking fuck things up so badly they get promoted . And we wonder why there are so many shootings , well fuck get it over with give every city resident an assume weapon a hand gun 10,000 rounds and back away and wait 72 hours and 50% or more of the problem would be solved !