Murders fall 42 percent in America's deadliest city: Chicago

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Character come from de people. Maybe we move Vermont people to Illinois. Maybe? Ya?

Make sure you specify, move them to Chicago.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

And it was done without gun control.

Now if Illinois would allow concealed carry for anyone they could have crime rates like Vermont

More guns. A brilliant solution.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

And it was done without gun control.

Now if Illinois would allow concealed carry for anyone they could have crime rates like Vermont

So conceal and carry would help the 770 children that were shot with the last year, youngest being one years old? Are you condoning children as young as seven being killed, can carry guns?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

So conceal and carry would help the 770 children that were shot with the last year, youngest being one years old? Are you condoning children as young as seven being killed, can carry guns?

Guns for EVERYONE. Don't discriminate, you fascist.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

More guns. A brilliant solution.

It's the only solution he knows.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Chicago has roughly six times as many guns as NYC does. I wonder why more guns in Chicago isn't solving anything?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Make sure you specify, move them to Chicago.

Are you saying that the character of people from Chicago is somehow worse than the character of people from Vermont?

Chicago would be improved by people from Vermont? Why?

Please detail your response.

Are you in favor of reciprocity in concealed carry? Under the reciprocity Act a person with a Vermont drivers license or state ID could carry a concealed handgun anywhere in the USA, even Chicago. You believe that would help?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Oh joy. Another thread that's been derailed to be about Vermont.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Chicago has roughly six times as many guns as NYC does. I wonder why more guns in Chicago isn't solving anything?

Good people are not allowed to have them in Chicago, AT ALL. Good people in New York are heavily restricted on having them

Increasing guns in the hands of bad people does not reduce crime. Increasing guns in the hands of GOOD people does reduce crime. This is WHY you call "911", because the person on the other end has a gun. Unless you are one of those that asks for the FIRE department when you are a crime victim.

New York HAS concealed carry though it is restricted heavily, Illinois does not have it at all. New York has a lower crime rate than Chicago. Vermont has concealed carry for anyone and has an even lower crime rate. See the correlation?

The higher the potential for victims to be armed...the less crime.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Are you saying that the character of people from Chicago is somehow worse than the character of people from Vermont?

Chicago would be improved by people from Vermont? Why?

Please detail your response.

Are you in favor of reciprocity in concealed carry? Under the reciprocity Act a person with a Vermont drivers license or state ID could carry a concealed handgun anywhere in the USA, even Chicago. You believe that would help?

I'll specify since you need it spelled out. Conceal and carry wouldn't help, why? Because as I have said before and you ignore it every time, children are being killed. Not adults, teenagers and little kids. No one referenced character, but I know you have to twist the thread so you can try and win the "argument".

[Teddy B 17,252]

you need redo your study with control on population density, ok? OK!

Vermont has more cows than NY and Chicago combined.

[JohnR! 5,495]

True, but at some point something may be bucking the trend.., That seems to be the notion proposed by the OP....

One or two months does not a year make..

My link

Only eight days into 2013, Chicago is already on a grim pace to not only continue the bloody trend of an elevated homicide rate -- but to surpass it.

NBC Chicago pointed out that, as of Sunday, 12 people had been murdered in Chicago this year, which, at a rate of two a day, but the city on a pace for a devastating 730 homicides, higher than any one-year murder total in Chicago since 1997.

By comparison, New York City has logged seven murders through Jan. 7, its first of the year on Jan. 3. Detroit had six homicides this year through Sunday, according to NBC.

Since Sunday, a 24-year-old male was fatally shot around 6 a.m. Tuesday in the 4000 block of West Wilcox Street in the city's East Garfield Park neighborhood, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Per DNAinfo Chicago, the victim's name has not yet been released pending the notification of his family.

At least eight other people were wounded in non-fatal shootings concentrated on the city's south and west sides between Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

Chicago's homicide rate has already grabbed a number of national headlines in the new year. It was the subject of two features on NPR's Morning Edition this week, including a Monday segment that featured Alex Kotlowitz, "There Are No Children Here" author and "The Interrupters" director, and a Tuesday segment exploring how the city's gun laws impact its crime rate. The New York Times last Thursday ran an analysis on the city's homicide rate on its front page.

On the heels of the negative publicity, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Tuesday announced their new plans for the city's CAPS community policing program which they described as a revitalization that will help deter crime.

According to NBC, the program's resources will be decentralized moving forward allowing strategies to be tailored more effectively to each specific police district. Each district will be assigned a CAPS sergeant, plus two police officers, a community organizer and a youth services provider.

McCarthy on Tuesday also pointed out that the city's police force has already confiscated 180 guns in the new year.

Last year, 506 homicides were logged in Chicago, only 25 percent of which were either solved, as of Friday, or cleared "exceptionally," according to DNAinfo. McCarthy blamed the low clearance rate rate on a pervasive "no-snitch code." Chicago police union president Michael Shields blamed an understaffed and overwhelmed city detective division.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Oh, izzit?

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.

[Teddy B 17,252]

You off the TV now, ok? OK!

I have a can of tuna.

[Darnell 8,478]

tuna, no horse run! set!

Nice to see you back !!! You sure mods are not tracking you today?