Chicago was responsible for nearly half of 2016’s increase in homicides in the US, though the nation’s crime rates remain near historic lows. The reasons for the higher numbers in Chicago remain unclear. Is this some kind of progressive joke? We know the reason and so does everyone else. Even Rahm knows the reason. Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city first peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city’s population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens. 

Homicide Trend (1957-2017)

Chicago, once know as the Butcher to the World, without exception knows how to hang the beef; carcasses everywhere, South side, West side, East side, West side and all around the town. They do things different in Chicago! Not the homicide rate under each mayor’s term, those Daley’s take the cake. And we know how much they loved Black people. Culling the herd by letting criminals execute their own was a way for street justice to prevail. We also take the opportunity to mention that all of these mayors were of the Democrat variety. Did you expect anything different?