My statement that Chicago has some of the "most stringent gun laws in the entire US" is true, and the NPR article provided by tinpeeba backs it up. I never said that Chicao had the strictest gun laws, and I'm sure there are cities with tougher ones.tinpeeba wrote: ↑February 21, 2018, 2:45 amFact Check: Is Chicago Proof That Gun Laws Don't Work?
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/05/55558059 ... don-t-work
Sorry, gun lovers, your attempts to use Chicago as a prop to bolster your claims that gun control laws do nothing to curb gun violence just don’t hold up, says Tribune columnist Dahleen Glanton:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/colu ... story.html
The NPR article states this:
The article from the Chicago Tribune contains basically the same information.It's also true that there were more than 4,000 shooting victims in Chicago in 2016. It's also true that Chicago has suffered a massive amount of gun crime recently. In 2016, homicides in Chicago sharply rose, mostly as a result of gun homicides, as the University of Chicago crime lab found in a January report.
Gun homicides in the city rose by 61 percent between 2015 and 2016. That helped make the gun homicide rate in Chicago particularly huge compared to other similar cities. The rate was 25.1 per 100,000 residents in 2016, compared to 14.7 in Philadelphia and just 2.3 in New York.
It also had a relatively high number of guns recovered — 243 per 100,000 residents. That's roughly on par with Philadelphia and much higher than Los Angeles or New York.
But it's not true that Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the country, as other fact checkers have also repeatedly found.
It is true that Illinois has tougher gun laws than many other states. The state is one of seven that requires licenses or permits to buy any firearm, and it's one of five that requires waiting periods for buying any firearm. The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which tracks gun laws nationwide, has given the state a B+ for its gun laws.
I never said Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the country. I used them as an example of a city with strict gun laws that haven't curbed their murder rate -- and STATS bear that out.
Over 1,500 murders in 3 years is a staggering number for a city with a B+ rating from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
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Time magazine has a different view of things than NPR and the Chicago Tribune.
http://time.com/4635049/chicago-murder-rate-homicides/
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https://qz.com/1086403/fbi-crime-statis ... o-with-it/
The US murder rate was up again—and 20% of the national increase came in Chicago
=====The increase in murder rates is mostly concentrated in several big cities—with Chicago accounting for about one-fifth of the rise between 2015 and 2016.
The Bismarck Tribune has a list compiled using FBI data.
Chicago Murders
2015 - 496
2016 - 762
2017 - 478
By far, the largest numbers of murders in any city in America.
http://bismarcktribune.com/news/nationa ... a8e.html#1
These cities are ranked based on per capita numbers in 2017, not homicide numbers.Crime rates in America have dropped steadily in the last 20 years. According to the Pew Research Center, violent crime rates fell over 50 percent from 1993 to 2015. Despite this overall trend, murder rates in the U.S. have gone up in the past two years. In some cities, murder rates increased at alarming speeds. For example, there were 496 murders in Chicago in 2015, compared with 762 in 2016.
Which American cities experienced the highest murder rates in 2015? Using data collected by the 2015 FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, the following is a ranking of cities by their murder rate per 100,000 people. Only cities that had populations over 100,000 and murder rates over 10 were included. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program defines murder and non-negligent manslaughter as the willful killing of one human being by another.
It's important to note that although these cities reflect a high murder rate in 2015, rates for the country overall are still historically low. Murder rates in the U.S. are down significantly from the 1980s and 1990s. Cities with higher murder rates range from large metropolises to smaller cities.
Rank .......City .......... Per Capita ........ Number
1 ..........St. Louis ..... 59.29 ............. 188
2 ..........Baltimore ..... 55.37 ............. 344
3 ..........Detroit ....... 43.82 ............. 295
4 ..........New Orleans ... 41.68 ............. 164
5 ..........Birmingham .... 37.21 ............. 79
6 ..........Jackson ....... 31.08 ............. 53
7 ..........Baton Rouge ... 26.23 ............. 60
8 ..........Hartford ...... 25.69 ............. 32
9 ..........Salinas, CA ... 25.29 ............. 40
10 .........Milwaukee ..... 24.15 ............. 145
11 .........DC ............ 24.10 ............. 162
12 .........Kansas City ... 23.03 ............. 109
13 .........Savanah ....... 22.48 ............. 54
14 .........Cincinnati .... 22.11 ............. 66
15 .........W Palm Beach .. 20.97 ............. 22
16 .........Memphis ....... 20.52 ............. 135
17 .........Oakland ....... 20.33 ............. 85
18 .........San Bernardino. 20.26 ............. 44
19 .........Atlanta ....... 20.23 ............. 94
20 .........Richmond ...... 19.47 ............. 43
21 .........Kansas City, KS 18.62 ............. 28
22 .........Pittsburgh .... 18.57 ............. 57
23 .........Dayton ........ 18.48 ............. 26
24 .........Philadelphia .. 17.86 ............. 280
25 .........Chicago ....... 17.52 ............. 478 By far, the largest NUMBER of murders.
26 .........N Charleston .. 17.42 ............. 19
27 .........Miami ......... 17.14 ............. 75
28 .........Indianapolis .. 17.12 ............. 148
29 .........South Bend .... 16.79 ............. 17
30 .........Waco .......... 16.74 ............. 22
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I will continue to use Chicago as a prime example where gun laws do not work, and the statistics bear it out.
