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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on December 01, 2021, 09:58:51 AM
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Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office confirms over 1,000 homicides for first time in 27 years
CHICAGO — The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Tuesday that over 1,000 homicides have been registered in the county in 2021, representing the highest total since there were 1,141 homicides in 1994.
There have been 1,009 homicides to date in 2021 in Cook County, showing an increase over 986 homicides recorded in all of 2020. Last year’s homicide totals were more than 40 percent higher than 2019’s total of 675.
The county’s record for most homicides in a year was recorded in 1991, when 1,229 homicides were handled by the Medical Examiner’s Office.
The city of Chicago has registered 777 confirmed homicides in 2021, with just under 23 percent occurring in suburban Cook County.
African Americans accounted for 81 percent of the county’s homicide victims, with Latinos making up just under 15 percent of homicide deaths. 88 percent of victims were men.
The youngest person killed in Cook County in 2021 was a 1-month-old boy, with the oldest victim being an 84-year-old man.
The breakdown of victims separated by age are as follows:
0-9: 12 homicides
10-19: 144 homicides
20-29: 389 homicides
30-39: 255 homicides
40-49: 111 homicides
50-59: 59 homicides
60-69: 29 homicides
70+: 10 homicides
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/cook-county-medical-examiners-office-confirms-over-1000-homicides-for-first-time-in-27-years/
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I lived in Schaumburg (Cook County) from 1997-99. Glad I fled when I did.
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Democrats want the hue and cry for safety to be so high, that we will trade our freedoms for security and embrace a national police force.
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Democrats want the hue and cry for safety to be so high, that we will trade our freedoms for security and embrace a national police force.
Or at least go along with gun confiscation laws. We know that those only apply to law abiding citizens, not the people already using illegal guns for crime.
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I lived in Schaumburg (Cook County) from 1997-99. Glad I fled when I did.
Know the area well, as I worked in Itasca for a few years for a commercial real estate firm with buildings in Schaumburg, Elk Grove Village, Arlington Heights, etc.
Served my self-imposed sentence of living in Chicago proper for a decade. There are some very nice and safe pockets of the city to reside, where the former Mrs. Wiggum and yours truly resided. Most of the crime is just a repeating cycle in the same parts of town where they've always been: The West and South sides. The idiot Democrats in charge have tried a zillion things to reduce crime but can't ever get anything done. Sad, because Chicago is a really a beautiful and great city. Glad I don't live there anymore.