Comment by sbf501

4 years ago

I'm not from Chicago, but all I ever hear about is the murder rate being higher than most countries. It's like that is the only thing people do in Chicago: go out and murder each other.

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michaelchisari  4 years ago

Because the US murder rate is so much higher than most countries. Chicago isn't in the top 10 for murders per capita in the US. It's not even top 20.

Chicago is #28.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-ci...

Granted it's way too high, but ask yourself why we don't take about Little Rock or Chattanooga or Richmond this way.

  • treis  4 years ago

    I think it's going to be my life's work to get people to stop making these comparisons. The difference in the size of city limits makes them meaningless. Chicago is geographically huge and includes a large swath of suburbs. Other city limits are much smaller and include all of the bad areas without the suburbs to dilute the per capita numbers.

  • sbf501  4 years ago

    I'm asking myself, but I don't know why. Only have a theory Koch brothers something something fairness in reporting act something something...