Let's combine 17 Chicago's western, southern and southwestern neighborhoods into one concluded area called Chiraq. Into this area we will include next neighborhoods:
- West side: Austin, Humboldt Park, East & West Garfield Park and North Lawndale;
- Southwest side: Little Village and Brighton Park;
- South Side: New City, Fuller Park, Washington Park, Greater Grand Crossing, West & East Englewood, Auburn Gresham, Chatham, Roseland and Washington Heights.
Taking into account population decline rate from previous two censuses Chiraq's population in 2016 would stand around 610.000 people. West Chiraq has around 210.000, Southwest Chiraq has around 120.000 and South Chiraq has around 280.000 inhabitants.
Up to saturday 12/18/2016 Chiraq already logged
502 murders. Yes, you read it right. 502 with population of around
610.000 individuals.
New York City holds the second place with 320 murders up to 12/5/2016 (8.5 milion inhabitants);
Baltimore is the third with 306 murders up to 12/18/2016 (605.000 inhabitants);
Fourth place for Los Angeles with 292 murders up to 12/18/2016 (3.8 million inhabitants);
Detroit ends top 5 with 291 murders up to 12/9/2016 (around 675.000 inhabitants).
Don't want to go further, anybody can notice the huge gap between Chiraq and all other places in country.
If this isn't convinceable enough I will just divide Chiraq into three geographical areas:
West Chiraq (17.18 sq miles):
Population:
210.000
Murder toll up to 18/12/16:
203
Murder rate up to 12/18/2016:
97.0
Southwest Chiraq (6.00 sq miles):
Population: 120.000
Murder toll up to 12/18/2016: 30
Murder rate up to 12/18/2016: 25.0
South Chiraq: (31.93 sq miles):
Population:
280.000
Murder toll up to 12/18/2016:
269
Murder rate up to 12/18/2016:
95.6
*Above is the map of Chiraq area. Neighborhoods with murder rates above 150 are painted black, hoods with murder rates between 100 and 150 are painted dark red, hoods with murder rates between 50 and 100 are painted red and the safest hoods with murder rates between 20 and 50 are painted orange.
Will add two more cents. Chiraq compared to other most dangerous cities in the US.
St Louis, which was last year named the murder rate capital of US, has logged 188 murders in 2015 with population around 305.000 at that time (Murder rate: 61.6).
West Chiraq logged 203 murders up to 12/18/16 with 95.000 smaller population.
Baltimore was last year by some "experts" pronounced even more dangerous than St. Louis, because it had almost the same murder rate and almost double population. Even though that Baltimore was always mentioned, when worst crime areas in US were discussed, in 2015 the city experienced its worst times ever. And that fact was mentioned in every news where crime in the US was analyzed. Ferguson effect, new drugs from pharmacies that were looted during the riots, etc.
In 2015 Baltimore logged 344 murders with population around 605.000 (Murder rate: 56.9)
Chiraq stands this year at 502 with almost the same population (Murder rate:
82.4).
In statistical terms it just hangs miles ahead of all "most dangerous" cities in US. Looks like an area in totally different crime class, like experiment gone really bad, an example of most extreme results of racial segregation, a heaven for gang members that wanna shoot, kill, be shot, be killed; a result when you combine interests of most violent Mexican cartel and the toughest US gangs... Chiraq's numbers in '16 just set new standards for crime archives with murder rates rarely seen even in the peak of crack epidemics when game was really about large amounts of money and not about gangs (well more like one/two block cliques/sets whatever) trying to catch as much bodies as possible and retaliate on as many opps as it gets. For example, last week, one (former) gang member of O'Block went to 4 funerals (everything is documented on twitter) - all violent deaths resulted by various gang wars. Today a quardruple homicide took place in the south side, fifth victim is in critical condition with gunshot wound to the head, only a two year old kid was spared. And the city just spirals more and more deeply into violence, it looks like retaliation cycle gets heavier every day with nobody even caring much.
That's how dangerous Chiraq really became, something just went totally down this year. It probably won't be explained years from this point, because Chiraq savages are on some other stuff right now.
*Before you even start. New Orleans and Detroit both had lesser murder tolls & rates than Baltimore so it just don't make sense to include those cities in consideration.
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