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Originally Posted by thegoatman
13 shot in Washington Park yesterday. If this was anywhere else it would have made national news, but it didn't fit the "narrative"
The first thing people think of when you ask them about chicago is crime. No other world class city has this designation. And please stop comparing Chicago to crime ridden dumps like Detroit and Baltimore. "cHiCaGo iS sAfEr tHaN rOcKfoRd aNd DeTrOiT" um, okay? Is Chicago safer than its actual peers? NY? LA? DC? Boston? SF? Seattle? Miami? No. Those cities dont have "40 shot, 10 killed" as weekly headlines
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I mean, I agree with your overall point. But bringing up
DC into that? LOL. I don't think you realize what the violent crime rates in DC even are if you think it's as low as the others. And some of the other cities like San Francisco have almost as high of robbery rates as Chicago right now.
12 people shot in DC on 8/24:
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/at-least...lent-day-in-dc
Murder rate so far in 2022
DC: 21.75 per 100K
Chicago: 17.44 per 100K
Robbery rate so far in 2022
Oakland: 426.6 per 100K
Portland: 244.8 per 100K
DC: 211.3 per 100K
Chicago: 209.88 per 100K
San Francisco: 187 per 100K
Houston: 186.5 per 100K (thru 7/31)
Seattle: 168.8 per 100K (thru 8/31)
Los Angeles: 164.3 per 100K
NYC: 137.4 per 100K
Chicago's rate thru 8/31 was 197.6 per 100K which is not a ton above Seattle's. Thru 7/31 the rate in Chicago was 169.8 per 100K which was lower than Houston's at the time. The west coast cities all have a pretty high robbery rates. Even Salt Lake City has a robbery rate that is similar to Los Angeles. And Portland's robbery rate as of 1.5 months ago was higher than Chicago's is today.
Carjacking rate so far in 2022
Oakland: 91 per 100K
Washington DC: 49.3 per 100K
Chicago: 42.5 per 100K
Not sure what SF is for carjacking, but I guarantee it is not low. These 2 bay area cities have a major problem with car thefts and robberies.
Again, I agree with your overall point. But don't bring up DC into any conversation about cities with lower violent crime rates. Because it simply does not have a lower violent crime rate for pretty much anything than Chicago.