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Originally Posted by Steve912
Spin it however ya like...
As of April 24, 2017 there have been 992 shootings. From January of 2001 to September of 2016, Chicago experienced nearly 8,000 murders murders. As a measure of comparison, the number of Americans killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was 2,384 and 4,504 respectively since 2001.
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For your comparison to be accurate, you need to compare US Military deaths in Afghanistan to police officer deaths in Chicago. After all, they're there for essentially the same purpose. Or you need to compare civilian deaths in Afghanistan to civilian deaths in Chicago . . .