Report: Stockton, Calif., has more murders per capita than Chicago

[SocialResponsibility]

two more since this report - we just hit 35. shit is getting out of hand.

(CBS/KOVR) STOCKTON, Calif. - The California city of Stockton is making headlines as the largest U.S. city to declare bankruptcy, but it is also dealing with a growing homicide rate that outpaces even Chicago.


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According to CBS Sacramento, a body found in a Stockton park Thursday is being investigated as the city's 33rd homicide of the year. Compare that to the 17 homicides committed by this same time last year.



Although the number of Chicago homicides this year - 240 victims so far - outnumbers Stockton homicides (and even the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan in 2012), Stockton has more murders per capita, CBS Sacramento reports.


The station reports that Stockton has one murder per 8,839 residents while Chicago has one per 11,231 citizens.

Many of the homicides in both cities have reportedly been blamed on gangs. In May, the Stockton police department teamed up with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office to form the San Joaquin Multi-Agency Gang Task Force to combat gang violence, CBS Sacramento reports.

 

[SFC I-Side]

Stupid shit brah I got fam in the D you go out there and to Chi and you will come back and be on monster dot com 24/7 till you makin square money lol they prolly had 500+ murders n any given year in the mid 90s

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[B-Buzz]

5 killed & 21 wounded in Chicago yesterday :\

 

[BIGCHILL]

SMH

 

[Ike Turner]

most murders, most car thefts, most random ass woopins, most muthafuckas walking around in the street at 3A.M. etc.

 

[Ike Turner]

5 killed & 21 wounded in Chicago yesterday :\

and you got Geno's steak house, which is a plus. people are starving in the 209

 

[FatBlunts209]

this aint nothin to glorify tho..people always wanna brag about how hard they city is man these murders aint just numbers on a score board man real niggaz is dyin man ..the homie champ got blasted by the police man its ugly..too many wannabes playing with guns..personally me whoopin your ass is gonna make me feel like a man than shoot u..my 6 year old son can grab a gun and pop u does that make him gangsta? niggaz got it all fucked up out here listening to this music immatating what they hear thinking theyre real killers then get arrested and cant handle a life sentence and end up snitching..our murder rates high cuz the small population out here stockton aint as dangerous as it seems..just certain people got funk with certain people either someone robbed a nigga or 9/10 over a female..no ones gonna risk their freedom or life shooting a nigga unless he really did somethin, but as i mentioned u got these wannabes tryin to prove themselves..fucked up generation..

 

[Rossibreath]

I think there was 3 murders in Menasha in my whole life haha

 

[NiNe2FiVe]

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"

 

[saladbowlking]

^^LMAO!!!!

 

[Gas One]

..my 6 year old son can grab a gun and pop u does that make him gangsta?

honestly, if your 6 year old picked up your strap and poofed a nigga flawlessly then threw your gun in the bushes instinctively and ran down the street, i'd call that the most gangster shit i seen in my life.

sure, you wouldnt be the best parent, but on his behalf? thats pretty gangster, you gotta admit.

 

[FatBlunts209]

honestly, if your 6 year old picked up your strap and poofed a nigga flawlessly then threw your gun in the bushes instinctively and ran down the street, i'd call that the most gangster shit i seen in my life.

sure, you wouldnt be the best parent, but on his behalf? thats pretty gangster, you gotta admit.

jus an example..the most dangerous person in the world is a coward with a gun..

 

[surcaliman]

so is the murder rate in these cities high cause niggas are crazier than in other cities or is it that law enforcement just aint giving a fuck?..like cops,detectives and prosecutors are just turning a blind eye to this?

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

so is the murder rate in these cities high cause niggas are crazier than in other cities or is it that law enforcement just aint giving a fuck?..like cops,detectives and prosecutors are just turning a blind eye to this?

Its a combo of MANY things...poverty, the shrinking middle class, and the mentality that comes from the socioeconomic separation as well as our out of control gun "laws".