There is an independent site that tracks homicides in Chicago. There are not affiliated with the police, and they use public sources to determine the number of homicides. The numbers that they give include justified homicides and homicides by police.
The numbers are very similar in 2014 to what they were in 2013.
2013 2014
Homicides by shooting 375 388
Woundings by shooting 1810 2231
Total Homicides 455 456
It is interesting to note that ratio of wounded to killed went up form 4.82/1 to 5.75/1 in one year.
The site has a lot of great graphics depicting where people were shot (not surprising, head shots and torso shots are the most deadly), where they were shot geographically, and when they occurred.
It is a good resource for Chicago killings and shootings. It would be nice if they would break out justified shootings, but those are harder to keep track of. From a graphic on clearance rates, it appears that they would have been about a dozen self defense shootings this last year.
Chicago only has a clearance rate of 30% for homicides.
The site proclaims that it is "Illustrating Chicago Values". It is heyjackass.com.
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"It is interesting to note that ratio of killed to wounded went up form 1/4.82 to 1/5.75 in one year."
ReplyDeleteActually, the rate of woundings to killings went DOWN, not UP. 1/5.75 is less than 1/4.82.
" It would be nice if they would break out justified shootings"
Then they wouldn't be called homicides.
I should have written that the ratio of woundings to killings went up or that the number of woundings to killings went up.
ReplyDeleteJustified homicides are still homicides.
Justified shootings are still shootings.