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The 11th district of Chicago's west side is like stuck in a time capsule to the 1980s. Not exactly surprising, but an area that 6 square miles and 75,000 residents has seen more murders(90 in total) than some big cities. What shows the level of seriousness the drug/heroin market is over there, within a 1 year and 5 months span there have been 2,400 drug-related arrests and 19,000 police calls concerning drug-dealing around a particular street. https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2...district-worse
A breakdown per the map shows that 54 of the murders were directly west and south of Garfield Park itself, and of that the majority happened in West Garfield Park neighborhood, which has a rate of well over 200 per 100k for its population. Another 18 were in a small area(4 x 10 block area I guesstimate) within the Humboldt Park section of the district.
Citywide, there have been 7 murders this weekend. 717 total per sun-times homicide tracker.
The Harrison District was worse than Gary in the 1990's when it was the U.S. murder capital by a wide margain in the 110+ per 100k territory. West Garfield Park being around 200 isn't surprising, it was 177 per 100k in 2016.
Yes, and I wasn't happy with those numbers back in 2003. It was back when Atlanta had a bad reputation and was ranked one of the top most dangerous cities in the United States. Btw you can add at least one more because even on Thanksgiving people don't take a break from shooting each other. The first few months of this year was quiet compared to 2019, so if it continues at this rate into next year I can see 2021 having even worser numbers.
Meanwhile as someone mentioned Miami might be an exception as that's one of the only cities that's showing improvement this year as it becomes more like Tokyo, for various reasons. I'm not sure about San Diego as I don't see many updates, but it's probably still the happiest city in the United States.
Miami is actually up this year too just want to correct this info.
DT San Diego has a noticeably lower homeless problem than LA, SF, Seattle, PDX, or Vancouver BC. Still has some, and has its sketchy parts but it's had a strong Republican mayor the last few years who hasn't tolerated what others have. Hopefully, he'll be our next Governor.
How is San Diego solving its homeless problem? Is it actually getting people back on their feet and in homes or just putting them in jail or on a bus to LA?
DT San Diego has a noticeably lower homeless problem than LA, SF, Seattle, PDX, or Vancouver BC. Still has some, and has its sketchy parts but it's had a strong Republican mayor the last few years who hasn't tolerated what others have. Hopefully, he'll be our next Governor.
San Diego has much more than “some.” Visible homelessness isn’t as bad as LA or SF, but it’s absolutely on the same level as Seattle, Portland, Denver etc. Homeless numbers support NYC having more homeless people than SD by far, but it doesn’t take into account SHELTERED homeless. SD has a bunch of unsheltered homeless people downtown. It’s bad, definitely one of the top 5 or 6 worst in-your-face homeless crisis cities in America.
I hate going to the Atlanta paper and seeing crap like this almost every day. I might well eat some "freedom fries" and watch The OC because it's like 2003 all over again. At least we're in our last month, but we're only 10 away from topping even 2003's total. This time of year is normally supposed to be quieter.
One day late this week, but here are the numbers through 11/14/20:
2020- 289 (Only 4 since the previous week).
2019- 232
2018- 224
LAPD skipped another release d/t Thanksgiving. As of 11/28:
2020- 308 (19 over the previous 2 weeks, first time over 300 since 2009).
2019- 239
2020- 234
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