(02-26-2023 11:20 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote: (02-26-2023 10:17 PM)Scoochpooch1 Wrote: (02-26-2023 03:40 PM)MattBrownEP Wrote: (02-26-2023 03:12 PM)mvfcfan Wrote: A lot of people don't go into Chicago anymore either considering how violent it is around there these days. It's a great place to get shot at on the weekends.
Tell me you dont know anything about Chicago without telling me you dont know anything about Chicago
To be fair, even if it was 100% accurate, you'd never admit it as a credential carrying media member. So in essence your opinion is just as much null and void as previous poster.
If you look at the crime/murder rates by neighborhood, you’ll see. They’re heavily concentrated in parts that people don’t ever visit unless they live there.
If you ever go to Chicago, I can guarantee you the parts you’re going to see are statistically very safe.
Yes - it absolutely drives me nuts.
A lot of people still don’t understand simply how *massive* Chicago is as a city both in terms of population and sheer physical size.
The half of Chicago that people would go to as a tourist - downtown, its adjacent areas, and the North Side - has a crime rate that is about the same as Toronto, Canada. If you were to formally split Chicago into two parts - akin to how San Francisco and Oakland are separate cities - that half of Chicago would have a population larger than San Francisco and be one of the safest cities in America.
There are certain cities in America where you can go from a nice neighborhood but then turn the wrong corner and end up in a bad neighborhood a couple of blocks away. (A lot of the Sun Belt cities come to mind there.) Chicago is NOT one of those places. There’s a pretty clear line of demarcation where avoiding where the preponderance of the crime occurs is fairly obvious.
Now, to be sure, that doesn’t excuse the long-term issues that have festered for generations in the other half of Chicago. It’s a true “Tale of Two Cities” problem that needs to be addressed.
Suffice to say, though, there are a lot of people nationally that have various self-interests to constantly talk about Chicago’s crime that are being completely disingenuous. The worst is using the “scary” total numbers based on a city of 3 million people while preying upon people’s general ignorance of statistics by neglecting that a lot of the much smaller cities that they live in, often in the Sun Belt, have higher crime rates.
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