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2026-09-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-28 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [153 views ] Top

1 Think I'll have to pass on this one.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-09-28 02:04|| 2026-09-28 02:04|| Front Page Top

2 Yea, one would have to dress and be as well armed as Rambo, skilled in ninjas tactics (mainly being invisible, while darting from hiding spot to the next hiding spot) in order to even see the sights.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2026-09-28 04:06|| 2026-09-28 04:06|| Front Page Top

3 You can do it, but stay in the daylight with your head on a swivel.

And carry a 'tire buddy'.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2026-09-28 05:35|| 2026-09-28 05:35|| Front Page Top

4 We're 13 miles north of there ... Don't go, ever.

Posted by ChicagoNorth 2026-09-28 07:59|| 2026-09-28 07:59|| Front Page Top

5 Through a gunsite?

Posted by ed in texas 2026-09-28 08:35|| 2026-09-28 08:35|| Front Page Top

6 At least Reuters gets Merz right ... but the rest is pretty much phoned in. Appropriate for sure

Posted by ChicagoNorth 2026-09-28 09:18|| 2026-09-28 09:18|| Front Page Top

7 I hate cities and Chicago is at the top of my list of ones never to visit.

Posted by DarthVader 2026-09-28 09:29|| 2026-09-28 09:29|| Front Page Top

8 Mr. Wife and I wandered around Chicago a few months ago with trailing daughter #2 and her very tall husband — on foot and on the subway. As long as one stays in decent neighbourhoods, it safe enough. And the statistics support that:

Worth repeating: 50% of crime happens in 2% of America (and Canada!)
Here's the situation:

Data from 2014, the most recent year that a county level breakdown is available, shows us that 54% of counties (containing 11% of the population) had zero murders. 69% of counties had no more than one murder, and held about 20% of the population. These counties account for only 4% of all murders in the country.
The worst 1% of counties have 19% of the population and 37% of the murders. The worst 5% of counties contain 47% of the population and account for 68% of murders. The study shows more than half of all murders occurred in just 2% of counties nationwide.

Note that 2% of counties is OVERSTATING the land area involved here.

In Chicago, the story is almost identical- with admittedly higher numbers. In the first four months of 2017, 222 murders took place in the heavily gun-controlled windy city. Lott writes, "But 23 of the 77 neighborhoods in the city have zero murders, and most of the 40 neighborhoods have only one murder. Twelve of the neighborhoods have 10 or more murders."

Yes. When you look at Cook County, you see 222 murders in four months and you think "holy shit Mabel, its open warfare!" But then you look at a Chicago crime map and see that there is a thin scatter of red dots across the map, with a few forest fires of red dots. There are a few streets where somebody gets killed pretty much every night, and the rest of the place is quiet.

The blog post is from 2019, but things aren’t like to have changed all that much since. The comments there are interesting, too. One commenter points out, “In Chicago, most of the murderers are members of gangs which provide political support to the Democratic machine that runs Cook County and so they are as immune from prosecution as Jussie Smollett.” Another writes, “As Eric Raymond puts it, the US is divided into two groups of neighborhoods: the inner cities look like Somalia, the rest looks like Switzerland. It's the Somalias that are the problem.”

Posted by trailing wife 2026-09-28 09:55|| 2026-09-28 09:55|| Front Page Top

9 But then you look at a Chicago crime map and see that there is a thin scatter of red dots across the map, with a few forest fires of red dots.

2026 Homicide Map

Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-28 10:27|| 2026-09-28 10:27|| Front Page Top

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