Munching Cheetos and Cheeto Mussolini
Chicago's homicide rate is high. It's hard to know current figures, but in 2016 it was about 24 per 100,000. The last time the nationwide average was that high was around 1776. When this kind of Federal action would have been spat on. The nationwide average homicide rate has been about 5-6 per 100,000 the past few years, down from a high point in the 80's and 90's of about 10-11 per 100,000. Violent and property crime has fallen nationwide for the past 2 decades as well. We have been safer. But peaks are historically associated with economic distress and that is certainly the case in America today. As my husband says, crime is an economic problem, and when white markets fail, black markets rise and the associated crime rises with them. Even if people are financially ok, many are suffering mental health impacts due to job loss and shutdowns. All of this is to say, a rise in crime should be expected. By Theanphibian - Own work , CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link But back to...
