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| What do community organizers achieve in Chicago, Ma? |
| 2008-09-04 |
| An estimated 123 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period. In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 123 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1. According to the Defense Department, 65 soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period. In the same time period, an estimated 245 people were shot and wounded in the city. The South Side's Englewood District, which includes the Englewood and West Englewood neighborhoods on the city's South Side, fared the worst over the summer. A total of 14 people were shot dead there, and 48 were shot and wounded. The next highest totals came in the Grand Crossing District, which includes the South Shore, Woodlawn, Park Manor and Grand Crossing neighborhoods on the South Side, 12 people were killed and 31 were injured. Also hit severely by gun violence over the summer was the Ogden District – which includes the Near Southwest Side's Lawndale and Little Village neighborhoods – where 10 people were killed and six were injured. The South Chicago District on the Southeast Side saw nine people killed and 11 injured, almost all concentrated in the South Chicago and Avalon Park neighborhoods at the north end of the district. The West Side's Austin District saw also saw nine people killed and 12 injured, while the Far South Side's Calumet District – including the Roseland, Fernwood and Pullman neighborhoods – saw eight killed and 20 injured. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 Besoeker, I think they prefer the term "Cadaver-Americans". Very patriotic bunch, they are. Never miss an election. Sure, they might get a touch confused from time to time and forget that they've already voted.....five times, but they just love their country so much that they get a bit carried away. I am sure several community organizers will be right by their side, helping to secure their precious constitutional rights, no doubt. A very oppressed group like Chicago's Cadaver-Americans need all the help they can get. |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-09-04 23:39 |
| #6 Keeping the dead active on the voter roles falls under the heading of General Administrative Assistance. The rest of the time, they are just fixers and bag men. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-09-04 21:52 |
| #5 What do community organizers achieve in Chicago, Ma? Keep the dead active in Cook County democratic politics? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-04 21:45 |
| #4 As Glenn Reynolds says, we should declare Chicago a failure and pull out. (I think we should do the same for D.C.) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-09-04 21:01 |
| #3 Actually Chicago's death rate, (123) for the summer period, was nearly triple the number killed in Iraq by hostile fire (42). The remaining 23 deaths in Iraq during the summer period were due to non-hostile events. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-09-04 20:58 |
| #2 CHANGE, you can believe in, in zerObama's congressional district. |
| Posted by: Snosing and Tenille9185 2008-09-04 20:58 |
| #1 The city that works. Well, at least the morticians are busy working. They'd have a Southside Awakening but unlike the Iraqis who were allowed to arm and protect themselves, the Chicago 'authorities' are more happy to process the paperwork as the body count rises. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-09-04 20:45 |