What do you think?

[JBP55]

Factual?

First answer is Chicago and second is Houston.



A Tale of Two Cities


Chicago, IL


Houston, TX

Population


2.7 million


2.15 million

Median HH Income


$38,600


$37,000

% African-American


38.9%


24%

% Hispanic


29.9%


44%

% Asian


5.5%


6%

% Non-Hispanic White


28.7%


26%



Pretty similar until you compare the following:

First answer to each question is Chicago second is Houston.


Chicago, IL

Houston, TX

Concealed Carry gun law

no

yes

# of Gun Stores

0

184 - Dedicated gun stores plus 1500 - legal places to buy guns- Walmart, K-mart, sporting goods, etc.

Homicides, 2012

1,806

207

Homicides per 100K


38.4

9.6

Avg. January high temperature (F)

31

63

Liberal conclusion: Cold weather causes murder.

 

[Emperor]

Unless this is solely for comedy, there are many reasons there is disparity. The info I am getting indicates that the vast majority of the murders committed in Chicago are gang related (I suppose they are including drug related numbers as gang violence as well); as the main reason. They apparently have a bigger gang problem than in Houston.

These are primarily black on black as well.

 

[JNieman]

It's fantastic support behind the premise that correlation does not indicate causation.

 

[Jack]

Chicago didn't have 1,### murders in 2012. It was closer to 500.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/03/21738861-chicago-on-pace-for-fewest-murders-since-1965

 

[Leonidas]

Corrected.

532 murders

Right at only 20 murders per 100k. Only DOUBLE Houston's rate.

 

[onebigbagostupi]

Chicago unemployment rate 10.9
houston unemployment rate 6.2

It's almost as if socioeconomic factors play more of a part in violent crime then the availability of weapons.

 

[CEHollier]

Gun Control does not work.

 

[03protege]

Anyone else see the Billboard in Baton Rouge on the North side while heading east bound? "BATON ROUGE HAS A HIGHER MURDER RATE THAN CHICAGO"

 

[onebigbagostupi]

It is understandable, Baton Rouge is a city with a smaller population, so a murder that occurs there is more significant then in Chicago. I am sure that if you broke down Chicago murders geographically, you would see that the murder rate on the southside is way higher then BR. This is why the numbers out of Flint, MI are so staggering, there is a high murder count, but a very low population. My question for them would be "Would you want to live in the worst neighborhood in BR, or the worst neighborhood in Chicago"

 

[erazir]

I've lived in both. I'll take BR.