Wirepoints’ special homicide report was cited by a CNN “fact check” of the fight between Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg and U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan over New York City’s crime statistics.
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.
CNN’s article used Wirepoints data to confirm that New York City had a far lower 2022 homicide rate compared to fellow big cities like Chicago and Philadelphia.
Read the article: Fact check: Here’s the truth about crime in Manhattan
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.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
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Even today, when you do good work, people notice. Well done Wirepoints!
Everything Wirepoints says can be backed up with hard data, and a lot of that comes from the opposing side i.e. the reading and math achievement scores from ISBE. It doesn’t get much more damning than when the opposing argues in favor of your position. Politicians lie, the numbers don’t.
Bravo wirepoints! Keep on it. If only chicagoans could read and use logic skills. I guess that would require schools that taught reading and math