Wirepoints’ recent homicide report escalated the war of words between Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg and U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan over President Trump’s indictment, according to ABC News.
After Rep. Jordan announced a Congressional hearing regarding Manhattan crime rates, a spokesman for Bragg returned fire by pulling Wirepoints data into the debate. Bragg’s spokesman told reporters that New York City had a murder rate “nearly three times lower” than that of Columbus, Ohio, which falls into Jordan’s district.
ABC reported that the “data appeared to be pulled from Wirepoints, an Illinois-based nonprofit, which found New York City had 5.2 homicides per 100,000 people compared with Columbus’ 15.4 homicides per 100,000 residents using publicly available homicide data for 2022.”
Wirepoints released its homicide report, Chicago, New Orleans were the nation’s murder capitals in 2022 – A Wirepoints survey of America’s 75 largest cities, in March 2023. The research found Chicago had the nation’s largest homicide count, at 697, while New Orleans had the country’s biggest homicide rate at 74.3 per 100,000.
The data further showed New York City had 5.2 homicides per 100,000 and ranked #64 nationally. Columbus’ homicide rate per 100,000 was higher, at 15.4 and ranked #30. For total homicides, New York City ranked #3 with 438, while Columbus ranked #22 with 140 homicides.
“Wirepoints surveyed the 75 largest cities across the U.S. because local governments continue to falter in their role as protectors of public safety, even though the nation is now more than two years removed from George Floyd’s murder and the pandemic is largely in the rear-view mirror,” said Ted Dabrowski, President at Wirepoints.
“It should be noted that one of the major take-aways from the report was Chicago’s extreme outlier status as the homicide capital of the nation under the leadership of Chicago District Attorney Kim Foxx. Kim Foxx is Bragg’s ideological counterpart in the Windy City, where 2022 homicides rose nearly 40% over pre-covid, pre-George-Floyd 2019.”
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Audio and summary 
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
New York pioneered stop and frisk which made criminals afraid carry in public. This paved the way for massive gentrification projects throughout NYC that transformed it from urban blight to the mecca it is today. Bragg is whistling past the graveyard here because before too long his city’s murder rate will be back where it was in the 90’s.
I always get a charge when WP or CWB changes the “Official” narrative of our “leaders.” Miss SCC too.
Big Time.
Indeed
Never fear, student organizers are mobilizing as we speak.
https://depauliaonline.com/63768/news/depaul-students-organize-in-response-to-budget-gap/
Academia’s day of reckoning is finally approaching. Not unsurprisingly, they are getting rid of professors, instead of DIE bloat, which is entirely consistent with academia’s commitments to indoctrination instead of learning.
Of note, the Illinois Institute of Technology’s bonds are now rated junk because it had to dip into its reserves to cover a $62,000,000 budget short fall.
https://www.bondbuyer.com/news/illinois-institute-of-technology-falls-to-junk-on-operating-strains
nice work!