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| Homicide rate by state. FBI. 2022 data. |
I was glad to hear that Trump sent the National Guard into Washington D. C. might be sending them into Chicago. From the news, it seems like crime is out of control there. Then I mentioned that there had been 238 murders in Chicago this year, and my friend replied that Chicago is a big city. That wasn't the response I was expecting.
So let's see if we can make sense of this. Population of the Chicago metropolitan area is 9.4 million. Call it 10 million. The number of murders last year was almost 600, so the murder rate is 6 per 100,000 (seems to be the number that Wikipedia uses). The rate overall for the USA is like between 3 and 10.
Looking at the map (above), Illinois had a murder rate of 7.8, which is not much different than 6, at least compared to some places, like some Caribbean islands and Mexico.
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| Countries with the most homicides |
I suspect that there are problem areas in Chicago where the murder rate is very high, but that doesn't bother most of the people in Chicago because they don't live in those areas. Which is kind of like me not caring about the murder rate in the Caribbean.
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You aren’t wrong per se, but remember there’s no commuter rail connection to the Bahamas, nor can I drive a stolen car to Aruba. The violence is concentrated in the neighborhoods given over to the savages, but the savagery is not positively contained there, and any easily accessible place is liable to see cultural enrichment.
The WHITEST STATES have the lowest rates.what a shock!.
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