Careful, Trump and conservatives in general are getting a lot of heat for exaggerating the murder rates in Chicago recently.. but even more egregious and incorrect is the liberal response.
I think Trump or someone recently claimed there were 200 or 300 murders in Chicago one weekend, and then the liberal press came out and said there was only 1.
This website seems to illustrate the truth of the matter pretty well:
https://heyjackass.com/
It seems as though conservatives are looking at the number of people shot statistics and assuming they are all murders, thus exaggerating the figures.. however to be fair, they are attempted murders and the number is quite high.
August to date:
Total shot 368
Shot and killed 46
Total homicides 48
So that's over ten murders a week, and about 80 people shot each week.
It could have been one weekend only one person was killed, but then the rest of the week they would have had to have at least 2 murders per day to catch up with the rate..
But what they don't say is that about 20 were likely shot that weekend.
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