“Over 80% of shootings occur outdoors and in public places.”-Roseanna Ander, University of Chicago Crime Lab
18 June 2012, according to data from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), more people have been killed in just one U.S. city, than all of the U.S. personnel killed in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion in 2001!
The DoD claims just over 2,000 personnel have been killed in Afghanistan between the invasion in 2001 to just last week (iCasualties.org says 2012 have been killed). The FBI says more than 5,000 people have been killed in the U.S. city of Chicago, during the same time!
On 15 June 2012, Chicago Sun-Times reported that from the beginning of 2012 at least 228 people were killed, and the murder rate jumped 35% since last year!
According to iCasualties.org, U.S. personnel deaths in Afghanistan, since the beginning of 2012, is at 203 (and some of these deaths are not combat related). So U.S. troops are slightly safer in Afghanistan than in Chicago!
Why the seeming civil war in Chicago? Blame the economy: “Not surprisingly, they’re in poorer neighborhoods…”-Roseanna Ander, University of Chicago Crime Lab
According to Chicago Sun-Times the city “…administration has cut anti-violence programs targeting some of Chicago’s poorer neighborhoods by $9 million.”
President Obama, and his family attended a wedding in Chicago on 16 June 2012. They needed an escort of as many as 200 Chicago cops! If that’s not a sign of a war zone then what is?
And by the way, Chicago city officials were told that the federal government is not paying for the extra police security! Like I said, blame the economy!
And what about incompetent city officials? Chicago cops are understaffed, yet city officials would rather pay overtime for cops working on their days off, than hire more cops. That doesn’t make economic sense, unless they’re trying to avoid paying out benefits for those new cops. Even then, in the long run it’ll cost the city more, because the civil war will only escalate.