For the 13th consecutive year, the city of Chicago once again reigned as the nation's homicide capital in 2024 with 573 murders. Ted Dabrowski, the president of Wirepoints, believes that the illness has festered for too long. Even as overall murder rates across the country dipped, Chicago also claimed the top spot for the highest murder rate per capita among big cities at 21.5 per 100,000 population. That's three times the level of Los Angeles and nearly five times that of New York City. "It means we have a real problem and we're sick," Dabrowski told The Center Square. "Until we get serious, this murder problem is going to be a drag on the city in terms of attracting people, attracting businesses and, worse, it's going to keep chasing people away and chasing businesses away. It's something we have to get our hands around."
"Take it up with the Chicago news station, it's their report."
It's not a news station.
It's a website run by those Chicago Community Organizers that you hate!
"Best of all, the Chicago Pride Parade"our neighborhood's grandest annual event"has increased security, and re-doubled efforts to clean the streets. Pride Parade-related arrests are down 50% since 2013. Thanks to our neighbors, the city, and parade organizers, the pride parade is something we can all be prouder of." cwbchicago.com
... For the 13th consecutive year, the city of Chicago once again reigned as the nation's homicide capital in 2024 with 573 murders. ...
Yeah, in absolute numbers. There are a lot of people who live in Chicago.
But, what about the per-capital numbers?
A better article might be ...
What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S. (March 5, 2025)
www.pewresearch.org
More specifically, this part of that article ...
Which states have the highest and lowest gun death rates in the U.S.?
www.pewresearch.org
... The rate of gun fatalities varies widely from state to state.
In 2023, the places with the highest total rates of gun-related deaths " counting murders, suicides and all other categories the CDC tracks " included the District of Columbia (30.6 per 100,000 people), Mississippi (29.4), Louisiana (28.3), Alabama (25.6) and New Mexico (25.3).
A map showing that U.S. gun death rates varied widely by state in 2023. [which see - lamp]
The states with the lowest total rates included Massachusetts (3.7), New Jersey (4.6), New York (4.7), Rhode Island (4.8) and Hawaii (4.9). ...
So, is the gracieamazed alias, as usual (it seems), looking for the headline attention, instead of the actual information behind that headline?
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