Chicago at 19 on Jan. 11

my wife knew the 2 most recent chicago homicides, the two teenagers who were shot and killed trying to rob a liquor store over the weekend, they were former students at the the middle school she used to teach at in auburn gresham. she remembered one of them right away as one of the most difficult and troubled students that she ever had in her entire teaching career.

that makes for a total of 7 former students of hers that have been gunned down on chicago's violent streets. depressing.

That's remarkable and depressing.

Philadelphia is at 5 so far for 2016

https://www.phillypolice.com/crime-maps-stats/

i wish it was remarkable, but i would have to imagine that most chicago teachers who've spent a good deal of time teaching in chicago's most violent and crime-ridden neighborhoods could make similar such lists of former students who've been gunned down.

Oh wow that's surprising, Ottawa is not off to a very good start then.
(By Ottawa standards).

I've lived in Canada for 18 years & I've only ever known 1 Person that was a Victim of Homicide. (& albeit I never knew that person directly but the Boyfriend who was the killer, but she went to my High School). :tup:

2015 Totals

Minneapolis - 49
St. Paul - 17
Denver - 51
Omaha - 50
Seattle - 22

Columbus just had a triple murder which brings the total so far this year to at least 8 homicides. Not a good start to the year at all.

Well, yeah. Probably 99% of people in the world don't know any homicide victims, Chicago included.

The point is that you don't work in an inner city school of African American kids in the U.S. If you did, you would be likely to know of homicide victims. Homicide is the #1 cause of death for young black men.

wait, are you saying that only 1% of chicagoans know a murder victim?

given that ~36,000 chicagoans have been murdered over the past 50 years, i'd find that incredibly hard to believe.

plenty of shootings last night during a snowstorm, including homicide #20 already

125 shot to date, first 12 days

Yeah I guess thats true. But even in Canada our Black Homicide Rates are far lower lol. Its not like Drake probably new alot of Black People in Toronto that got killed either lol xD.

Gainesville Florida is at 1!
http://www.news4jax.com/news/1-dead-...ville-shooting

Temecula is also at 1!
http://patch.com/california/temecula...een-arrested-0

where are you getting 20? the trib shows 16.
http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/homicides

I think there were another 8 shootings including 2 homicides this afternoon.

yeah, just saw that 3 people were killed today. a wednesday. and it was snowing out all day.

this year is going to be ugly.

Lexington KY is at 4.

Louisville KY is at 7. Also 1 accidental shooting death and 1 justified shooting death.

Scott County KY is at 1.

Hardin County KY is at 1.

Daviess County KY has 1 officer involved shooting death.

Greenup County KY is at 1.

Hopkins County KY has 1 accidental shooting death.

Memphis is already at 12.

I don't know if it was previously discussed, but how much do you think the advance in trauma treatment has affected the Homicide Rate?