Afghanistan vs Chicago Violence

[Ddawg]

April '14
This past weekend in Chicago, shot and killed: 8
Shot and wounded in Chicago this weekend: 44 (updated)

Chicago homicides March 2014: 25
Afghanistan, U.S. military forces killed in Mar. 2014: 0 (zero)

2014 - to date in Chicago:
Shot and killed: 75
Shot and wounded: 387
Total homicides Chicago 2014: 94


U.S military forces killed in Afghanistan, April 2014: 2
Total U.S. military forces killed in Afghanistan 2014: 16

Draw your own conclusions.

[SpiffCoug]

Obviously there are too many guns in in Chicago.. everyone should have to turn in their weapons

[Schmoe]

The US Military must have the most well-behaved guns in the world. Every time I turn on the news I hear about how a gun shot someone, but they have guns all over and the guns almost never get out of line or wake up in the middle of the night and go shoot people. I wonder why guns back home do that, weird.

[BoiseBYU]

Interestingly, in 2013 Chiacgo's murder rate was the lowest since 1965...

[Ddawg]

Interestingly, in 2013 Chiacgo's murder rate was the lowest since 1965...

Be careful about those Chicago "declining" crime statistics. There's a whole lot of "fudging" and re-classifying of those crime statistics to give the impression of lowering crime in Chicago. The integrity of those statistics is questionable.

[Ddawg]

Here's some additional info:

"The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates"

The city’s drop in crime has been nothing short of miraculous. Here’s what’s behind the unbelievable numbers.

BY DAVID BERNSTEIN AND NOAH ISACKSON

Excerpt: "Given the finding of homicide—and the corroborating evidence at the crime scene—the Chicago Police Department should have counted Groves’s death as a murder. And it did. Until December 18. On that day, the police report indicates, a lieutenant overseeing the Groves case reclassified the homicide investigation as a noncriminal death investigation. In his writeup, he cited the medical examiner’s “inability to determine a cause of death.”

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magaz ... ime-rates/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;