Chicago 'By No Means' the Murder Capital of the U.S., Yale Study Concludes

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The mayor and his top cop used a new Ivy League crime study Monday to tout gains in law enforcement and renew calls for more after-school programs and gun control.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Garry McCarthy cheered a new Yale University study saying Chicago is "on track" this year to have its lowest homicide rate since 1967 and the lowest rate of violent crime since 1972.

That study, "48 Years of Crime in Chicago," by Yale professor Andrew Papachristos, concluded: "Chicago is by no means the 'murder capital' or 'crime capital' of the [United States]." It added that Chicago's rate of violent crime was half that of Detroit, and ranked 19th in the nation for cities larger than 250,000, on par with Houston and Minneapolis.

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I'm so sick of right wingers bashing my city. There are some ways Chicago is messed up. But, that has more to do with Rahm privatizing stuff

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1. I completely agree. All the idiots who bash Chicago have never been here.

We absolutely have our problems and Rahm is one of them, as was Daley. But it's not some ridiculous cartoon-city of union thugs and completely corrupt politicians. A lot of things about Chicago work very well - we just need real leadership, not some asshole mayor whose donors reap more benefit from the city than the general public.