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Add 39 to Chicago now
Another Double homicide in the south side but this time in the East Side community area a ISP trooper and a female possibly (wife or sister) with 7 days left in January Chicago ends with either 45 to 50 homicides this month
Not sure how you counted this one. This was a murder/suicide with the trooper taking his wife's life who wanted a divorce and then turning the gun onto himself in a car in a quiet, safe neighborhood.
None of those cities you named are close to being the worst in their respective countries, either. Chicago is still safer than Salvador and Fortaleza; cities of comparable populations. Rio is probably the same. There's about a dozen states in Brazil with higher rates than Chicago as a city.
Most immigrants will move to suburbs and settle in towns that are safe long term. Like how Salvadorans/Hondurans settled in Northern Virginia and not DC; but even DC would be an improvement over most locales in El Salvador or Honduras, let alone NoVA.
People just name places they think are awful based on stereotypes. I love when people say "x city is more dangerous than Afghanistan" when in reality, Afghanistan has a lower homicide rate than like 10 US states.
Newport News records its first homicide of the year after a man was shot behind a shopping center, right on the border of Hampton. Had he been shot in the parking lot instead, it would've counted for Hampton.
I don't know what's wrong with the city, but apparently Houston is currently leading Chicago with 41 homicides as of 1/25/21 compared to 38 in Chicago at the same time. Is Chicago's rate lower or is Houston just really ramping up the number of homicides.
At the rate Houston's at we would expect to end the year with 599 homicides.
Houston's record is 701 in 1981, with way less people than today 1.6 million people compared to 2.3 million people. So it isn't reaching it anytime soon but that's still an astounding number.
St Louis at 8 or 9 following a homicide that turned into a gun battle in North City the suspect was shot and killed by police. Even with this number St Louis managed to end January with less than 15 homicides.
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