Breaking Our Own Record

Chicago has blown past the record number of homicides year-to-date set in 2016. 335 people have been killed so far this year. That’s about twice as many as were killed in the Tulsa race riots.

Some would say that 1992 or even 1974 were worse but they’re missing something: Chicago’s population was a lot higher then. There are almost a million fewer people living in Chicago than in 1974.

Almost all of the murders have been of young black men and have been perpetrated by other young black men.

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