As police Supt. Jody Weis returns to the hot seat during a City Council budget hearing today, Chicago is outpacing New York and Los Angeles in 2008 murders.Via Newsalert!
Chicago, whose population is dwarfed by those cities, posted 426 killings through Tuesday, compared with 417 in New York and 302 in L.A.
At the end of 1998, Chicago made international headlines as the U.S. "murder capital" after surpassing New York's homicide totals for the first time ever. Chicago shed that dubious distinction when murders plummeted over the last decade.
In 1998, there were about 700 murders here. Chicago is on pace to exceed 500 murders by the end of 2008.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Grim stat: Chicago ahead of N.Y., L.A. in murders
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