Nearly 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer

[ben_meyers]

I don't know anything about Chicago media, but this headline and article seems just a bit slanted. Is CBS 2 a networked owned station, or just an affiliate?

Nearly 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer
Total Is About Double The Death Toll In Iraq
CHICAGO (CBS) ― An estimated 123 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.

In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 123 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.

According to the Defense Department, 65 soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period.

In the same time period, an estimated 245 people were shot and wounded in the city.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.summer.shootings.2.810166.html

[sasquatch]

1. How many were in self defense though?

Just to play devils advocate.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

2. I don't get what's slanted

I think they're trying to illustrate that Chicago has had a lot of violence this summer. There have been more shootings in neighborhoods that rarely experience them, and an alarming increase in neighborhoods where shootings are far too common. A heartbreaking number of victims have been children who caught stray bullets. I myself have heard more gunfire - and shots returned - than I ever have in more than 30 years of living here.

[ben_meyers]

3. It's usually the Limbaughs that minimize the loss of our troops in

Iraq by comparing them to something like this. That's what struck me as odd. The two things aren't related.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

4. I can see that, but I don't think that's what they're striving for

I don't watch Channel 2 much, but lot of the local coverage I've seen is critical of the police response and by extension the mayor. Many people aren't happy with Daley, they're disgusted with a new county sales tax that is the highest in the nation, and they're questioning the ability of his new police chief.

People get killed in the ghetto all the time. Half the public wrings its hands, the other half blames the people who live there. But this summer shootings increased in mixed and middle class neighborhoods. When people were shot and killed near the huge Taste of Chicago festival, the affluent downtown dwellers and suburban visitors flipped out. So Channel 2 is saying in effect, Jesus Christ, Baghdad is safer than Chicago.