Murders in the U.S. rose as a whole last year, thanks in large part to a Windy City crime wave.
Murders in the U.S. rose nearly 9% last year, and one-third of that increase came from just a few neighborhoods in Chicago, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of the FBI’s annual 2016 publication, Crime in the United States.
While violent crime (homicide, rape, assault, and robbery) also rose nationwide from 2015 to 2016 — over 4% — the data show the increase was not uniform, but rather concentrated in cities like Chicago and Baltimore.
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2 comments:
Wait a minute, that cannot be. Chicago has one of the most strictest gun control laws in the country. It should be Nirvana there. Nobody is supposed to have guns.
Yes. A democrat's paradise. (insert sarcasm here)
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