Take the city of Chicago; where the US Marshalls, the FBI and a pack of bloodhounds couldn't find a republican.
How's life in this bubbling bastion of "progressive" policies? Ask Jennifer Hudson's mother, who was gunned down last night, the 426th homicide this year, more then soldiers killed in Iraq.
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.
What the hell is so "progressive" about being murdered?
Just think if we get all these Chicago pols in Washington the whole country will run just as nicely as the "Second City".
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