Chicago is Safe?
- Despite Chicago’s alarming, if select, murder statistics and routine singling out by President Donald Trump for gun violence, this lakeside metropolis was just ranked one of the safest cities in the world.
The Economist Intelligence Unit, a London-based research firm affiliated with the Economist magazine, named Chicago to its 2017 Safe Cities Index, issued Thursday — one of only three US cities to crack the top 20 — largely based on advances in digital security.
The annual ranking assesses 60 global cities using four factors: personal safety, health security, digital security and the safety of infrastructure.
Well, we certainly feel safer...digitally speaking. But that doesn't mean we aren't carrying a gun most places. And it certainly doesn't mean shit if you're a 64-year-old school teacher walking down a neighborhood street and someone decides to launch a dozen or more shots at a rival and you happen to be standing downrange. Certainly, your chances are better in certain parts of town. But a 1-in-500 chance is still a chance most people aren't happy with.
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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Article probably written by a group of twenty
somethings up all night with pizza and tea.
Never set foot in America; never been to Chicago
Morgue to see the stacked bodies.
Over-reliance on technology they heard about, but
no hands on experience. A crap article from a good
business magazine from junior staffers. This assignment
was dumped in their laps because older employees
shy away from technology.
Chicago is safe?
I guess Black Lives Matter is correct. No one gives a warm dump about the 600 some Black Men killed in Chicago last year. Except it ain't the cops that are killing Black Men, it is their fellow Black Men
800 total dead. Chicago is not safe if 800 people died in it last year. Unless like all good Socialists, these people believe Blacks don't count?
ALL big cities around the world have shit zones you dont go to. What makes a difference is what percentage of the city is a shit zone. Take Detroit or Gary where 90% of it is complete shit. Chicago wether you like it or notstill has a considerably larger safe zone than we would like to admit.
I'm a city copper and have been a victim of an agg assault (w/handgun) and witnessed 2 shootings OFF DUTY. 1 in Lincoln park, 1 in Logan Square and the other 1 in Old Irving. All in the span of about 1 year. I don't feel safe at all. All 3 incidents were at reasonable times of the day. RD #'s generated as well.
How much did Rahm pay for that fake report?
"Digitally safe"
This essentially means that there are a lot of cameras to witness your victimization, but few cops around that can actually do anything to prevent the crime, or stop it.
CPD: Taking reactive policing to new depths.
rb
Load of crap. Safe Cities "overall ratings" list Chicago 19th and New York City 21st. New York city has far less crime problems for their size than Chicago. They will likely have fewer homicides than Baltimore this year. Rahm and the aldercretins will speak of this as some sort of triumph.
It is assumed that The Economist Intelligence Unit was obviously impressed with number of cameras being deployed by the City, especially on our Public Transportation System. And as someone with the experience of working the Mass Transit Unit for almost 20 yrs. as a CPD Sergeant; I can state with Absolute Certainty: CAMERAS PROVIDE AN "ILLUSION", RATHER THAN REALITY OF SECURITY. Every Camera is NOT BEING MONITORED 24/7 IN REAL TIME! So to put it bluntly; I would gladly take the Economist Intel. Unit on a tour of the City. If they can take the CTA Red Line and Green Line, especially if they are White and female, and get off the train at several stops that I pick on the West and South sides of the "Shitty", and walk around without being robbed or assaulted; then I will take them to dinner at my expense to Ruth Chris. If the conditions that are faced daily by our residents constitute a safe environment; then we are all Fucked. Have your White ass sustain a vehicle break down in Englewood or Austin and tell me you are safe. I have seen a Black person hit by a car, lying in the street bleeding, and before police arrived, the subject was robbed of his wallet and cheap watch. Another time I saw a White man crash his vehicle into parked cars following a heart attack in Austin, and the subject was dragged out of his vehicle and was being robbed as I arrived. As I was giving the guy CPR, his car was being ransacked by the "Community" as others tried to take his shoes! Any one of you who have worked the streets of Chicago can recall other incidents of total disrespect for humanity, demonstrated by the denizens of Chicago upon others unfortunate enough to have an emergency in our lovely "Shitty"! If Chicago was Safe, the Mayor would not drive with an entourage of dozens of armed police officers. These officers are not with him to provide traffic control. Armed police officers take the Mayor's children to school, and his wife shopping. If the City was safe, we could save money by not having to pay for the Armed Security of the Mayor and his home 24/7! And if Amazon wants to hire me as a consultant, contact SCC, and I will gladly show them what many of their 50,000 employees will have to endure getting to work. Last weekend we surpassed 3,000 Human Beings shot this year; is that Safe? Be Very Careful,smile and wave often to the public! Worry often, because the Dancing Turd has your back, which means you are Expendable! Baby "G"
"The Economist"....run by:
"The Board currently comprises nine non-executive directors and two executive directors. The non-executive directors have a breadth of successful commercial and professional experience and they exercise independent judgment. Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild and her spouse, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild....."
Unbiased news and independent judgement, of course....
Chicago = 65% ghetto and unliveable. 25% too expensive and too full of naive transplant liberals. 10% white middle class blue collar.
You can't compare Gary Indiana and Detroit to Chicago. There are only 2 cities in the same category as Chicago nationally. New York and LA. Period. Stop with the ridiculous apples to oranges comparisons.
"" Anonymous Anonymous said...
How much did Rahm pay for that fake report?
10/17/2017 01:21:00 AM""
He just had to but more black iron fences a la London.
Wow! Can I asked what city is the worst?
A whole hell of alot of innocents bystanders get caught in the cross fire of the gangs on Morse Ave, it's not personal Sonny it's business...
(OT) look at this training video from Chicago that they are getting ready with the violent antifa Group looks like military training! We got to be really scared but then again we will take the knee sure the Democrats that we support that if we do the mayor will probably give us a raise look at how tough these guys look good they all grow up in the rich suburbs of Chicago like the mayor? Oh and they say the police are not invited to the training sessions;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iVxYfbBOPv8
They are definitely not training like Bruce lee:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9PAW5Cden4U
I watch this video this intensive training program is off the charts we should take lessons from them this is really funny shit you have to admit it!
OT but interesting none the less, the sculptor of the Bean was invited back to Chicago to reconstruct his masterpiece into a bullet to commemorate all the innocent lives lost under reign of the twerp murder mayor...
"...I'm a city copper..."
Move to the 'Ville. You'll be safer.
Just wait for the Obama library to go up. Many lost visitors will be victims to the safe zone!
And on the Yahoo news site, Trevor Noah has jumped into or rather ONTO 9 1/2's bandwagon.......saying Chicago is only in the news because it's Obama's "home" and Trump doesn't like him......
Gee, I forget, where is this guy from? And where does he live? And how many body-guards does he have? Article concludes with a piece of news about the "peacekeepers" out here in the city, trying to keep the gangs from killing, shooting, maiming more innocents.......
Chicago doesn't have a GUN problem, it has a GANG problem. Of course politicians don't like to accurately describe the problem because GANGS turn out the vote at election time and line the politicians pockets with bribes during the off-season, all so that the GANGS can continue with their lucrative drug trade.
You will never get rid of the gangs until you get rid of the drug trade, and you will never get rid of the drug trade until you legalize drugs.
Sorry, we've tried everything else and it simply hasn't worked.
And if legalizing drugs doesn't work, we can always go back.
FBI: 118 Law Enforcement Officers Died in Line of Duty in 2016; 57,180 Assaulted
By Susan Jones | October 16, 2017
(CNSNews.com) - 118 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty last year in the United States, the FBI reported on Monday.
That was up 37 percent from the 86 law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty in 2015.
In 2016, 66 of the 118 deaths of law enforcement officers were felonious and 52 were accidental. In 2015, 41 of the 86 deaths of law enforcement officers were felonious and 45 were accidental.
Another 57,180 officers were assaulted in the line of duty in 2016, and 16,535 (or about 29 percent) sustained injuries from that assault.
"All of these numbers increased from figures reported in 2015, when 45 officers died accidentally and 41 were feloniously killed in the line of duty," the FBI said. A total of 50,212 assaults were reported in 2015.
Of the 66 officers killed by criminal acts in 2016:
--62 of the 66 were killed by firearms;
--51 were wearing body armor at the time they were killed;
-- 4 were killed intentionally with vehicles;
-- 17 were killed in ambushes, 13 were killed answering disturbance calls, and 9 were killed investigating suspicious people or circumstances.
Of the 52 officers who were killed in accidents in 2016, 26 were killed in auto accidents, 12 were struck by vehicles, and 7 died in motorcycles accidents.
In a statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the increase unacceptable:
Read at: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/118-law-enforcement-officers-killeddied-line-duty-2016-37-2015
'...800 people died in it last year...'
Way more than 800 died.... don't dilute the point--over 700 were MURDERED last year ...
and there were more than 4,000 shot
Just read M Mitchell, it's amazing that she and her people will never take accountability for their actions. The shooter in Rogers Park didn't kill the teacher, the gun did! She goes on to list two other shooting over the weekend and then states that Australia has severely restricted gun ownership and there are less gun deaths. Not one word about who the gang banging, multiple felony, out on parol/probation shooters are, and the fact that none of them owned a gun legally. Hell they can't even get 50% of these kids to finish hicgh school how do they expect them to follow gun laws. But hey it's not the gang bangers fault it's the politicians and the NRA's fault. Someone needs to save them from themselves again and again...
Well, I reckon killing a few hundred black people doesn't account for much. Black lies matter was started on a lie, guess their organization hasn't done much to change that.
J.J.
P/S; Maybe it was just taxpayer dollars, Rahm may have "found" another million or two laying around collecting dust.
"Health Security" would mean free health care, food stamps, housing. The rating wouldn't be any more ridiculous if it were based on the amount of bling people wear, or the amount of rap music they play.
London based on What its safe because We havent had A Terrorist Attack.
Baby G, Lets not forget the Police Officer Who crashed his car and Shit head Stole his Badge and Gun.I work in 018 there are hundreds of Predators Strollings around every day in 018 looking for Crimes of Equal Opportunity.
10/17/2017 12:40:00 AM
I guess Black Lives Matter is correct.
Not True, I wish Black Lives Matter would care about the Black men and children killed, but they don't. They are only interested in Police and black thugs!
Their political agenda is only against police.
Stay safe and define a new fetal.
Digital safety?!?! Like...Shart Spotter??
President The Donald knows how to keep Chicago safe. Building the wall is a good start.
The UK Economist Mag/rag makes most of the American Lib media look fair and honest.
The Economist is absolutely dreadful, horrible on immigration.
The Economist, their words:
"What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? "It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to think of itself as belonging. The extreme centre is the paper's historical position." That is as true today as when Crowther said it in 1955. The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favouring penal reform and decolonisation, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage."
Pushing the agenda of Democrats, denial and lack of reality - it's all summed up in the last line.
So of course, Chicago is Safe, they say so,
Nothing else matters that none of the other 60 'global cities' can boast 3,000 shot and 560 dead so far this year under the leadership of the biggest Crime Denier ever and his lightheaded and sickly 19th Month, Right Man for the Right Time™.
They probably had to delay the article last year that had 2016's totals under TRMFTRT™ inaugural year due to a bad internet connection. One can suppose that come 2018 Chicago will be leading the way in safeness, inclusion, diversity and tolerance and The Economist will be back with an updated scripted fairy tale.
Fake News never stops.
Stay fetal for Rahm.
This report just feels like a public relations payback to Rahm for some deal we don't know about. Or maybe a down payment on some deal to come. You've really got to cherry-pick your data-sets and exclude other ones to arrive at a definition of "safe" for this deteriorating shithole.
Wait. According to CPD vehicles aren't weapons, right?
rb
-- 4 were killed intentionally with vehicles;
Read at: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/118-law-enforcement-officers-killeddied-line-duty-2016-37-2015
oh, and this...
France stunned after truck attacker kills 84 on Bastille Day in Nice
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/15/nice-attack-leaves-84-dead-and-france-in-shock
Hilarious!
After seeing Antifa's self defense training video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuvI9... I suddenly became paralyzed with fear! I realized I was no match for the awesome display of power possessed only by true anti-fascist warriors...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_tQbMVZoUI
OT) look at this training video from Chicago that they are getting ready with the violent antifa Group looks like military training! We got to be really scared but then again we will take the knee sure the Democrats that we support that if we do the mayor will probably give us a raise look at how tough these guys look good they all grow up in the rich suburbs of Chicago like the mayor? Oh and they say the police are not invited to the training sessions;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iVxYfbBOPv8
They are definitely not training like Bruce lee:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9PAW5Cden4U
I watch this video this intensive training program is off the charts we should take lessons from them this is really funny shit you have to admit it!
10/17/2017 07:39:00 AM
Hilarious!
After seeing Antifa's self defense training video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuvI9... I suddenly became paralyzed with fear! I realized I was no match for the awesome display of power possessed only by true anti-fascist warriors...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_tQbMVZoUI
Couldn't agree more. Big difference between these 3 or 4 mopes acting all bad to shoot a video. A lot different when someone is hitting back
Plus half of the demonstrators are woman, sorry sounding sexist
Went down when NATO and that G whatever was downtown and they were going to destroy the city. SCC lit up with all these fears and predictions. These guys are pussies and aren't going to do crap. They are stupid if they pick a fight with CPD
I guess that no member of the "intelligence team" took a ride on the Red Line.
Mr. SouthSide says ---
"...I work in 018..."
Apology accepted.
According to local Rahm media a man fell down stairs and was injured. I guess it's just 'watch your step'.
http://abc7chicago.com/man-81-badly-injured-during-robbery-at-cta-brown-line-station/2549117/
How much did the city send to a company overseas to say that? LMFAO. What were they smoking?
The LAS VEGAS HOTEL was digitally safe.....
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