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Originally Posted by Bonsai Tree
And? Sure he didn't make progress- but I'd rather have 496 homicides than the 618 we had last year. I find this argument ridiculous- since homicides in the 400s is the lowest the city had in generations.
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Let's also not forget the 800+ homicides from 2016.
Homicides were already in the 400s when Rahm came into office (2010: 456, 2009: 463). We were at the end of a decade-plus run of murders falling. By the end of Rahm's 8 years,
we weren't in that category anymore.