Homicides in Chicago Stay at Low Levels for 5th Straight Year as Racists Seek Other ways to Prove Their Vaunted Self-worth, Assumed Innate Superior Moral Standing and Justify Their Punitive Policies
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Racists are obsessed with crime statistics in Black communities. Liberal and conservative media BOTH feed THIER AUDIENCES with crime data to help otherize Blacks and support a posture already taken and projected; as these white simpletons believe crime stats are proof of the fantastic myth that Blacks are inherently criminal. Based on this unstated belief, white liberals IN LOCAL MAINSTREAM MEDIA FOR INSTANCE, go on using crime to justify treating Black people criminally in liberal cities, freely imposing punitive policies and socially distancing themselves from Blacks. It should go without saying but White republican prosecutors and judges aren’t THE ONES filling the jails with Black people in diverse, liberal cities like ATLANTA, NYC, MINNEAPOLIS or Chicago.
DR. AMOS Wilson explains, "Alleged Black criminality, while evoking White American fear and loathing, reassures them of their vaunted self-worth, their assumed innately superior moral standing, of their self-congratulatory self-constraint in contrast with presumed Black American unworthiness, innate inferior moral standing, inherent criminality, lack of self-constraint and self-control.” “Black criminals function as a negative reference group vital to maintaining the White American self-image. [MORE]
statistics – opinions dressed as facts. 2) the disembodied abstraction of numerical signifiers and graphic ghosts that are conjured up in an attempt to support a political posture already taken. 3) a pseudo-scientific system used to manipulate physical reality. Statistics is a weak model. Statistics is like a bikini—what they reveal are suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. With statistics, there is only modeling of the distribution of events. Also, with statistics, you always have the luxury of having high trends in low spaces to dissemble, portend or otherwise pretend. Anyone who cites a statistic has an investment in the statistic cited—statistics don’t just show up uninvited. Statistics generate opinions, but more often, opinions generate statistics. Figures lie and liars figure their way out of lies—so it figures. Dogma and statistics are kissing-cousins. We do not believe what we prove with statistics, we prove what we believe. Statistics are a snap-shot in time of what has been. If you want to be a has-been, believe in statistics. (See: Dogma, Opinions, Beliefs & ICE)
Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims’ families to be notified of a death by Chicago police.
The homicide figures do not include killings that occurred in self-defense or in other circumstances not measured in Chicago police statistics. Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.
Chicago began to see a decline in homicides in 2022. Homicide and nonfatal shooting totals fell again in 2023, but the city was roiled by robbery and carjacking crews responsible for an overall uptick in violence. Then 2024 was the third consecutive year of decreasing homicides in Chicago, and 2025 was the fourth.
Data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through July 24, 2026. [MORE]
