Lol no Chicago was ass when it came to violence. The name Chiraq exists for a reason lol. New York and LA are a lot larger cities overall. The cities that ‘smoke’ Chicago when it comes to gun violence is simply because they’re usually more tourist-esque towns, so even though the population that lives there may be smaller, the overall crime rate rate increases because tourists mimic it having a larger population.
Example: Town A is a tourist town with a population of 50,000 people in it. Each year, it has 1 million visitors. If there’s a murder rate of 1 per 1000 within that 1 million, that would mean 1,000 murders happen each year in Town A. But because the population size is really 50,000 that means that the homicide rate in Town A is technically 20 per 1000. In other words, it’s artificially inflating the numbers.
You also have to keep in mind that our police department is absolute ass when it comes to homicide. So many cases go unsolved and even unreported. My dad has a gas station in Chicago and there’s an alleyway behind it, there’s dead bodies laying there all the time lol. They’re usually hookers and occasionally drug dealers but the police don’t care. They just take the bodies away and don’t even report it in the headcount bc then that would mean acknowledgement of a murder which is just 1 more case they’d have to solve, which btw they don’t wanna even do. Plus, a lot of the times these people don’t have any family or friends or anything like that so they just close the case that they never even opened. This is right next to Midway Airport too so it’s not like this is a crime-ridden area either lol. I can’t imagine how it must be like in some other neighborhoods. He used to have another station more on the north side, near this real ****ty area (not in it, but right on the border of it) and there were shootings all the time. The police usually came 2-3 hours after a shooting, if they came at all (sometimes they would literally just not respond In those areas, if you shoot at somebody and the police happen to come to check out the noise alarms that were set off and there’s no blood or body or evidence of a shooting anywhere, all you gotta do to get away with the crime is just say “it was gangs” and then they’ll just be like “ahh, okay” and then just leave. They won’t even bother to check any cameras lol. Happened a lot when I was a kid so that’s how I know.