01-26-2017, 11:05 AM
(01-26-2017, 07:56 AM)Odin Wrote:(01-25-2017, 05:39 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:(01-25-2017, 05:12 PM)Odin Wrote:(01-25-2017, 05:10 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:(01-25-2017, 05:08 PM)Odin Wrote: He's tweeting about shit he sees on cable news. One of his tweets, IIRC, was him agreeing with Bill O'Reilly (a conservative pundit on Fox News) that he might need to "send in the Feds" into Chicago because of it's supposed "crime problem" (a small uptick in the violent crime rate in the last 2 years).
God help us all.
A small uptick in what was already a prodigious violent crime rate there in the South Side. I mean, keep it in perspective, but keep it ALL in perspective.
Still much lower than 30 years ago.
And still way outside developed country norms. Chicago had 468 murders in 2015, and 762 in 2016 (this link says 480 in 2015). It accounted for nearly half the increase in murders in the US in 2016. Japan by contrast had 933 in 2015, despite having 50 times more people than Chicago. If you don't think Japan is a fair comparison, let's look at at, say, the Netherlands by murder rate.
The Netherlands - 0.9 murders per 100,000
Amsterdam - 2.3 m/100,000
Chicago in 2015, 15.6 murder per 100,000.
Even NYC is down to 2.8 or so. Maybe something is amiss there in Chi-Town, after all? I don't think that claiming that it still isn't QUITE as bad as the early 90s makes much sense, do you?
The answer is to end the drug war, not to turn an American city into an occupied territory. And given the polarization of society "sending in the Feds" is more likely to blow up into an outright revolt than it is to solve the problem.
That's the answer? Legalize all drugs and everything will be fine? The sole explanation for Chicago's (as opposed to NYC or elsewhere) soaring murder rate?
That's quite a leap in logic you're making there, Odin. How do you figure?