The only way that the occurrence of crime is less for CHI or NYC vs IND or other cities is if you try to rationalize it by normalizing against population or square miles.....
HeyJackass.com has the stats for Chicago in an easy to understand format.
Right now we are well on track to have close to two homicides a day. Every 13 hours and 17 minutes (as of today), someone is killed in Chicago. Not just gun violence -- they count knives, blunt force trauma, etc. as well.
Carjackings you say? 1100 for the year by now. That's slightly over three a day.
Cities like STL and IND may have higher rates of homicide, but neither are going to break 100 for the year, while Chicago is already at the edge of 600, and there's still 40+ days left in the year...
If you're going to say that conservative media is hyper-sensationalizing the problem for their "older viewers", then I guess I have to counter that perhaps liberal media is trying to minimize the actual problem for the younger, more liberal viewers?...
Then again, cities tend to have single party rule, and have had single party rule for the most part of the last 50 years and counting....
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