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So tired of this narrative. Chicago was way worse in the 70's when the projects were up and their was no such thing as "drill rap"
that would imply spin.....ppl not getting killed in NYC da way they getting slaughtered in Chicago, and NYC still has ALL its project public housing that da windy city used as a scape goat for da violence & tore em down...
It is soon because a lot of U.S. cities have much higher homicide rates than Chicago does - New Orleans, St. Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit to name four. Chicago's murder rate is typically only about half the rates in those cities. Yet, you never hear about violence in those cities because those narratives are not media sexy and the public doesn't give a **** about violence in poor, black cities that don't matter in the global economy. In the case of New Orleans, the media has colluded with local law enforcement and political and civic elites to bury the fact that they usually have the highest murder rate of any major city in the country. If violence in New Orleans was being covered the way violence in Chicago is, imagine the impact that might have on their tourist-centric economy.
With respect to your point about public housing, New York didn't just simply leave their projects up - the city reinvested tens of millions of dollars in their public housing. They provided their poor citizens with quality affordable housing and also kept communities intact. Chicago's policy of public housing demolition and widescale displacement, on the other hand, was undoubtedly catastrophic.
I will be back to respond to other posts from the perspective of someone who has lived and worked and done research with gang members on the South Side of Chicago for the last eight years.
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