Selah Hunter
Chicago marks 500th homicide of the year: 'It's never over
Summary:
Juan Bahena Jr. is the example of the 500th homicide this year which is a decline by 7% compared to last years number. The Tribune (homicide counter) counts all homicide including the justified one but excluding the ones on experts ways or ones done by cops. Chicago has had 486 murders this year which is huge decline from last years (same day but last year) 521 murders. Bahena is one of the 2,718 people who've been shot this year which is a 11% decline from last year’s 3,066. As of last Saturday midnight Chicago recorded 2,089 incidents (criminal) which is nearly 16% decline from last year’s 2,486. Chicago’s people (specifically where Bahena was shot (border of Little Village and Heart of Chicago)) have noticed the decline of criminal/ gang activity, but did not expect it to last long. As Ray said, “ it’s never over.”
Analysis:
The author of this article is Tony Briscoe and Liam Ford who are probably from Chicago considering they're righting for Chicago Tribune, thought they put none of their prior knowledge of how it is to live in Chicago. The article was published Sept 18 at 8:00 am. I have known that Chicago can be know as a hard town but I never know how many homicides there really were in Chicago and how recently they occurred. The audience of this article is for the Chicago people. The point of this article is to tell that the people of Chicago that things are getting better, this is how much better, but if you still don't believe us other people have their doubts as well. I don't think it was to bring anybody together to stop the violence or to warn people about how they may be the next homicide incident, I think this article was simple to state that this year 2017 isn't as bad as last year, 2016. But honestly nothing is going to be as bad as 2016. I think this article relates to what was happening in Detroit not to long ago, how it was known as a Gang town and then how lowered- though it also become isolated through the process.
But is the reason for lower homicide rate due to the conditions of violence actually getting better and being better "controlled", or because cops are being a bigger threat (and they replace previous homicide percentages and are an exception to the total)?
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