| You would never know it from the media, but total murders have been steadily dropping in recent years. "Many major media outlets compared the homicide rate in Chicago to that of the Holocaust and Afghanistan. One year, Chicago's murder rate was higher than Iraq's, which gave Chicago the nickname "Chiraq". However, recent Chicago homicide rates are nowhere near those seen in the '70s, '80s and '90s. In fact, the past decade has logged some of the lowest annual rates since 1965." 1928: 498 1966: 512 1969: 715 1974: 970 1984: 741 1994: 931 2008: 513 2013: 441 2014: 432 Click to read the full article and view all the data points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago |
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