Who Gets Killed in Chicago?

The Sun Times "watchdogs" had this article up:

• Among the Sun-Times’ findings, based on a review of police and Cook County medical examiner’s reports, court files and interviews:
  
  • The vast majority of those killed in Chicago in the first half of this year — 90 percent —died from a gunshot wound.
  • Seventy-two percent were African-American men, their average age 29.
  • Four out of five had faced criminal charges in Cook County at some point, mostly for drug offenses; the leading cause of arrest in Chicago.
  • Two out of five had drug convictions.
  • More than a quarter had been convicted of a violent offense or illegal gun possession.
  • Domestic conflicts, many involving mental illness, were involved in at least 24 of the deaths.
  • At least four were killed by stray bullets. Others were shot while in the company of people who were targeted.
  • The reasons behind other killings remain a mystery to the police.

We don't know why they think this is original reporting - HeyJackass.com has been doing it better for a few years now, and they have all sorts of eye-catching graphs and breakdowns. They have sections for gender, race, and neighborhood. They track clearance rates, self-shot, shot-in-the-ass, and shot-in-the-junk.

One of our favorites is the "shot clock" tracking the average amount of time it takes for someone else to get shot - currently at just over two hours. But you aren't going to see that in the paper.