Chicago Beats New York, Los Angeles In Murders. This is BARACK OBAMA hometown

Oct 24, 2008 10:34 am US/Central
Chicago Beats New York, Los Angeles In Murders.
Barack Obama's Home town and former state senator of Illinois.

Police Supt. Jody Weis To Take Hot City Council Hot Seat
CHICAGO (CBS) ― Chicago is the Second City in nickname and the third in population, but when it comes to murder, the city has the dubious distinction of being second to no city in America.

As CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports, the Chicago Sun-Times pointed out on Friday that Chicago has seen 426 homicides this year through Tuesday, compared with 417 in New York and 302 in Los Angeles.

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.

There are more than 8 million people in New York, compared to slightly under 3 million in Chicago. The population of Los Angeles exceeds that of Chicago by more than 800,000.

Murder is also up, at a lower rate, in New York.

The alarming statistics were expected to come up on Friday when Police Supt. Jody Weis once again appeared before the City Council to address a crime rate that many believe has spun out of control. He appeared at a City Council budget hearing, which began at 10 a.m.

Weis, a career FBI agent, took office this year with a mandate to clean up the department in the wake of several scandals. But murders have risen, and arrests have fallen, on his watch.

Back in July, Weis addressed the media after being grilled by the Council on the subject.

"I don't mind tough questions," Weis said in July, not long after a shooting erupted on the streets of the Loop as crowds were leaving the annual Grant Park fireworks show. "The City of Chicago has the right to ask tough questions, especially when our crime is up nearly 13 percent."

Under tough questioning at a Council hearing that month, Weis suggested there was a "degree of timidness" among officers afraid of having lawsuits and citizen complaints filed against them.

At the hearing Friday, Weis may highlight what police view as a different problem: Officers have spent nearly 5,000 hours filling out inventory forms in the first nine months of 2008. "We'd rather they be on the street," said Beatrice Cuello, deputy superintendent of patrol.

Last year, the Cook County sheriff, who runs the jail, stopped inventorying arrestees' property. Under an agreement with the Police Department, cops took over the task.

"It's not our responsibility," said Steve Patterson, a spokesman for Sheriff Tom Dart. "We had an entire room filled with property.

Chicago is on pace to exceed 500 murders by the end of the year, but that number is far short of even approaching a record. In every year between 1991 and 1994, there were more than 900 homicides in the city, peaking in 1992 with 943 murders. The standing record for homicides in Chicago dates back to 1974, when there were 970 murders.

CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli and the STNG Wire contributed to this report.

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[deleoa471]

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[Blackout9193]

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[goonitary]

@Blackout9193 What u forgetting though is that there are only maybe 3-5 GOOD neighborhoods in chicago including downtown. the north side, as good as it looks, has "hoods" like albany park and uptown. they been gettin murders alot lately nd dont forget the worst PJs in america was up north-cabrini green. NW side is all fucked up which is mostly Hispanics 2. nd u right NOBODY worst hood can compare to our normal hoods. and NO WHERE can compare with englewood lol

[goonitary]

chicago has beaten NY and LA since around the early 2000s. thats cause they sweet as pie LMFAO!

[coqoi]

NEW YORK IS FUCKIN LAMES ALL THESE SO CALLED MOBSTERS WERE SNITCHES ALL OF EM CHITOWN RUN THIS BITCH WHO WANNA FUCK WIT IT

[cleotha1]

new york is fake azz hell! ny niggahs got to claim other cities gangs! ny is not even look at as being a bad city

[deleoa471]

@Blackout9193 COME SAY TO THE MOBSTER FACE YOU FUCKING FAGGOT. I BET WE CHOPPED YOUR ASS AND FLUSH YOU IN THE TOILET FUCKING CHICAGO MAN NEW YORK MADE THE CITY CHICAGO AL CAPONE BORN IN NEW YORK BROOKLYN THE HOME OF THE REAL G IF YOU HAVE PROBLEM COME TO THE BROOKLYN FUCKER AND THOSE FEDS GUYS DONT KNOW WHAT THEY TALK ABOUT WHAT ABOUT THE MISSING PEOPLE IN NEW YORK ???????????? 

[Blackout9193]

@Nick718BkLyN Majority of da ghetto in NY is full of hispanics...Whats hood about dat?It aint nothin but blacks n Chi hoods..In HUmbolt Park and the low low end of da south is where da hispanics at..Yal dont even have a gangsta accent...Sorry but NY is not scary..Yal worst hood cant compare to our normal hood lol..Dats tru shit.

[Blackout9193]

@Nick718BkLyN Look folk...Watch da video "Gangster City The Streets Of Chicago"...Since when does NY need of da National Guard..I'm tryna tell yo goofy ass mufukkas sayn how hood dey shit is, but when dey talk about da chi niggas be like dem niggas crazy out thea..NY is just full of wannabes like i said with all dem dam dominicans n shit..Yal niggas so muffuckn lame folk....

[Blackout9193]

@Nick718BkLyN Yea gangland goofy...Yal dont kno how 2 gangbang in NY tru shit..We got better hos then NY, better vibe, man da chi jus betta fuk everybody else.aint nothin like da chi...Dats on everything..U a goofy cuz u went 2 2 chicago videos talkkn about how tuff NY is and in reality...No one heard of NY?When dem NY rappers come do there shows ova hea in da chi, dey always get robbed...Niggas in ATL like gucci n oj talkkn about if shit go wrong in ATL dey movin 2 da chi..NY is not heard if.