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It seems Chicago has regained the title of murder capital of the county.

But this is really what made me say "holy shit":

"In New York, the unofficial murder tally of 596 compared with 584 in 2002. That was a 2 percent jump but still made 2003 the city's second straight year below 600 -- dramatically less than the 2,245 homicides recorded in 1990."

I don't know much about murder rates or crime, but holy shit, 2,245 people murdered in NYC in one year?? What the hell was going on in that city that year? That's a huge, huge fucking difference.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 2 January 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

better reporting, perhaps

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 2 January 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Haven't you seen Gangs of New York?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 2 January 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha "that year"

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 2 January 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

What the hell was going on in that city that year?

Crack.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 2 January 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I forgot about "Bill the Butcher", aye.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 2 January 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

also, Giuliani made all the killers move to unincorporated parts of town.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

it was a zoning deal.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's (not?) funny, Mann's joke is pretty much exactly what is happening in Washington DC - gradually increasing rents and living costs by building more subway stations and yuppie-friendly commercial zoning until all the poor folks are forced to move to Maryland suburbs (hence massive recent crime rate increase throughout Prince George's County and environs).

― TOMBOT, Friday, 2 January 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, what I said was an extreme oversimplification (for questionable comic effect) of what really happened.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Someone should do a study on the effect of no-cellphones-whilst-driving laws and the effect they have on drug and gang-related crime

― TOMBOT, Friday, 2 January 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

You Americans...all those psyhcos and you still can't beat a small Australian city that no one's ever heard of.

See Adelaide and die...
http://www.globosapiens.net/travel-information/Adelaide-389.html

A thousand English reporters who have never been to the joint can't be wrong..
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/s635701.htm

Bring out your dead a.k.a. a visit to the local library..
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/adelaide/corpses_1.html

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

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