2012 Timeline of Chicago Murders
With names, faces, not just numbers.
You can click on some for “Read Their Story.”
10% of the fatalities were ages 17 or younger. This means we lost at least 50 children in 2012.
Click on the map above to view an animated visualization displaying Philadelphia homicides from January 1, 2006 through December 18, 2012 (almost seven full years totalling 3,084 homicides.)
I think we’ve failed our young people and we’ve failed our young people because graduation rates are so anemic, particularly for young men of color … and … I think as a society, we have to focus more on our public education system and devote frankly more resources to it. We live in a country, unfortunately, in which we’re much more willing to spend money on keeping people in prison than we are educating them in our public schools, and that’s disgraceful.
Cook County Board President, Toni Preckwinkle, speaks out for a more holistic approach to the problem of crime in Chicago
FILM: The Interrupters
Source: suntimes.com
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