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frazzled

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18. Check the actual pinpoints: this map is not accurate

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 11:44 AM

Dec 2015

I live in Chicago too. I clicked on one of the pins that is placed at the north side of Wacker and North Wells, and it says the shooting took place at the 3700 block of South Wells--which is probably at least 6 miles away. A second pin was placed at Canal and Washington Streets (which would be about 400 block West Washington), but the data says the shooting took place on the 5100 block of West Washington, on the far west side, many miles away).

The pins are wildly inaccurate when you look at them more closely. The one shooting that was fatal in my general vicinity (and which is accurate) is one I heard about--at a restaurant-nightclub that has since been shut down.

I read my alderman's weekly e-newsletter, as well as my neighborhood assn emails--so I would probably be aware of any fatal shootings in my immediate neighborhood.

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How Many People Have Been Shot Near You This Year? [View all] workinclasszero Dec 2015 OP

3 treestar Dec 2015 #1

22. 6 fatal. mopinko Dec 2015 #2

Check the actual pinpoints: this map is not accurate frazzled Dec 2015 #18

i knew about at least half of them. mopinko Dec 2015 #24

1 and they were from out of town yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #28

Zero newfie11 Dec 2015 #3

Rocky Raccoon doesn't count? Buzz Clik Dec 2015 #5

Lol newfie11 Dec 2015 #9

I don't think the stats go back to 1968 JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2015 #25

None, there have been six one county over. ileus Dec 2015 #4

A shit ton pintobean Dec 2015 #6

Sheeeeit, Man. Where are you? Chan790 Dec 2015 #20

St. Louis pintobean Dec 2015 #23

There have been workinclasszero Dec 2015 #7

18 abelenkpe Dec 2015 #8

None. bluedigger Dec 2015 #10

None, GGJohn Dec 2015 #11

2 Major Nikon Dec 2015 #12

4 fatal within a 20 mile radius. SamKnause Dec 2015 #13

66: 18 fatal and 48 non-fatal Glimmer of Hope Dec 2015 #14

One. Well known right wing sorefeet Dec 2015 #15

Fatal? Chan790 Dec 2015 #22

Very fatal, his son sorefeet Dec 2015 #29

None, but a neighbor stabbed her mother to death with a kitchen knife. n/t meaculpa2011 Dec 2015 #16

Those nasty kitchen knives yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #31

A few fairly nearby. Igel Dec 2015 #17

4, 1 fatal--a failed murder-suicide. n/t Chan790 Dec 2015 #19

8 in a 1 mile radius kiva Dec 2015 #21

1 - not fatal. 840high Dec 2015 #26

According to that, none. hobbit709 Dec 2015 #27

3 dead 1 wounded Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2015 #30

From my address: OilemFirchen Dec 2015 #32

Gadzooks! tencats Dec 2015 #33

1 killed. Domestic violence. nt B2G Dec 2015 #34

None around here. What's with this urban gun violence where guns aren't needed? Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #35

Las Vegas and Clark County, Wellstone ruled Dec 2015 #36

One just last night - a burglar who broke into a county prosecutor's home. NaturalHigh Dec 2015 #37

3 fatal within 2 miles, no non-fatal. kwassa Dec 2015 #38

None where I live in the past year. Decoy of Fenris Dec 2015 #39

One non fatal in past year Liberal_in_LA Dec 2015 #40

Not accurate. It lists only one shooting in my area. mainer Dec 2015 #41