Over 100 murders in 2018!

[MaxE]

The 9 million statistic is right, my bad. But point is the same. The murders, at the moment, are not of tourists. But the other difference is that the huge Chicago police force goes after bad guys, whereas Mexican criminals go after the police.

I don’t think this is correct. The city of Chicago is closer to 3million (slightly under), the metro area may be closer to the 9million, but the crime stats are for the city proper not the greater metro area.

 

[Midwesterndvr]

I live in Chicago, this year has been unseasonably cold. The police do get concerned when we have warm weather that’s when it becomes much more dangerous.

 

[BRT]

I live in Chicago, this year has been unseasonably cold. The police do get concerned when we have warm weather that’s when it becomes much more dangerous.

Has it been cold in Cancun?

 

[MaxE]

I live in Chicago, this year has been unseasonably cold. The police do get concerned when we have warm weather that’s when it becomes much more dangerous.

I don’t live in Chicago anymore, I moved somewhere much safer (New Orleans). Joking aside, the tempature is only part of the equation, another part of it that happens to take place when it is warm is school letting out for the summer.

What I think the real point is, is that the crime is very targeted. In Chicago the majority of the murders are in a very small part of the West and South sides. Not so much along the Gold Coast, Mag mile, Andersonville.....

It’s my reading that the Cancun killings are related to Narco trafficking and Cartels, I’m not involved in that line of work and would feel fairly safe.

Consider this senareo for a minute. Chicago has a murder rate of 1 in 100,000 (totally made up) and say Cancun is 1 in 75,000 (again made up). Now say you live in a town of 500 people and a guy gets walks in on his wife and another man and kills them both they have a murder rate of 1 in 250, is that a dangerous place?

It is important to evaluate the danger objectively not simply look at the stats with out context.

 

[Midwesterndvr]

I’m in total agreement with you Max, As I am a current resident I was merely making light of a bad situation were in as a city. For those members who have never had the chance to visit crime is very concentrated in certain areas as max has said. However there are many parts of the city that are very safe. Violence here usually peaks in the summertime. I’m sure some of which is connected to narco trafficking also.

 

[MaxE]

I’m just saying it’s always more complicated than just the sensational numbers. As I alluded to in a likely tasteless joke earlier I moved from Chicago to New Orleans years ago, our population is about half that of Cancun and less than 10% of Chicago. We are at or above 53 murders so far. I feel mostly safe, but the bottom line is I’m sure as hell not going to let irational fear dictate how I live.

 

[northernone]

Has it been cold in Cancun?

Too much "ice" being bought by the tourists.

 

[Midwesterndvr]

I would agree max, I recently visited New Orleans and found it to be a fine city and felt fairly safe there.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

And the same drug cartels seems to be the driving factor in both.
And took the ferry over to Cozumel last weekend, didn't worry about it. I think that in either city you will find the majority of the violence is clustered in the areas where the drug trade is also clustered

What’s driving the drug trade?
Who’s using the drugs?
Supply and demand.

 

[flyboy08]

I was just pointing out a Stat! Make of it what u wish. Heck, I live in NYC! I certainly know all about pockets of "better not go there", although they are far and few these days here in NYC.

Use to be if you could no longer read the graffiti on the subways, you went one stop too many! Now, their spankin silver without a blemish on them. Times have changed, oh how they've changed.