City Demographics and Crime Profile of Chicago

Baltimore, the largest city in Maryland, is located in the northern portion of the state on the Patapsco River estuary, a division of Chesapeake Bay. The city is self-governing and does not fall within any county. (Baltimore, Md., 2015) The vast majority of this city is poverty stricken, which makes it vulnerable to high crime rates. In the first six months of 2013 Baltimore had reported 117 homicides, with a population of 622, 104, (CITY DATA, 2015) this gives the city a rate of 18.8 per 100,000. It was one of few cities that year to actually see an increase in homicides; it was stated by Their City Police Commissioner that more than half of their homicides were related to drugs. Even though, the amount of violent crimes dwindled in 2013,

In cities like Baltimore, Maryland, and Chicago, the worst cities for urban youth, teen crime is not extraordinary. The poverty-ridden towns further provide reason and excuse for crime. Now this can be caused by many things, but the key ones are for money to provide basic needs and a way to obtain material goods that could not be obtained lawfully. In “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore, two impoverished teens growing up in Baltimore experience very different lives, one will find himself on top of the world, and the other far below in a state prison.

Detroit, the largest city in the state of Michigan, unfortunately has been plagued with a high crime rate resulting in synonymous acts of violence, poverty, and urban decay. A multitude of factors are considered when determining accurate explanations of crime within Detroit. These factors include changes in land use, property values, transportation, and retail, as an individual moves further away from the city center. According to Robert Park and Ernest Burgess, Chicago School, a city was similar to a body and consisted of various organs. The theory attempted to analyze criminality from an ecological and social disorganization standpoint. This theory asserted that a city included distinctive concentric circles that radiated from the central business district (CBD). Supposedly, the further one moves away from the concentric zones, the fewer social problems that exist (Williams & McShane, 2009, p. 86).

|Crime. Ed. Louise Gerdes. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Apollo Library. 12 Dec. 2009 |

This chapter provides a good history of Youngstown from the early 1980’s to the early 2000s with a lot focus on the rising crimes that plagued the town. The authors in this chapter at the beginning talks about how the view of Youngstown went from this image deindustrialization to an image of a crime infested and political corrupted town (Pg. 190). Linkon and Russo put a lot of focus on the many stereotypes of Youngstown with most of them holding truth. These stereotypes that read involved murder, poverty, mafia involvement, and corrupted politicians. The Vindicator reported that Youngstown during the 1990’s had one of the highest murder rates for a city over fifty thousand (Pg. 193). The chapter goes into more detail about the white-color crimes, and the political corruption through the mob as the chapter goes on. In 1998, George Magazine listed Youngstown as one the ten most corrupted cities in American, which only added to the title of ‘Crime Town, USA’ (Pg. 213). Although this chapter highlights the negative aspects that came from the deindustrialization in Youngstown, Ohio, it really is telling the story of most towns that are inside the rust belt. So, as a person who has been to Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Columbus I have seen what deindustrialization has done to this once great

How would you feel if your race represented a sigma- one of such that is viewed negatively upon-causing government officials to provide the bare minimum of resources for you to function just below the poverty threshold? Chicago, the 3rd largest populated city in the U.S followed by it having the 3rd largest black population in the U.S according to the 2010 U.S census report is a city that raises many questions. The murder rate in Chicago has inclined rapidly over the past 10 years “A total of 510 Chicagoans were murdered in 2008, compared to 445 in 2007” according to The University of Chicago Crime

We've all heard of chicago horrible crimes rates , but can dallas be right behind chicago with their crimes rates?Reporters have showed in violent crimes dallas has reach 58.7 and in property crime they've reach 57.7.While in chicago their violent crimes have reach 58.9, and their property crime is 52.1.Imagine you and your family on one weekend having fun, but in a second that can change .These two articles show ,how the crime rates have affected these two cities.

Chicago is facing a serious problem. Over this year 's Fourth of July Weekend, eighty four people were shot resulting in fourteen deaths. After this violent weekend, Mayor Rahm Emmanuel nearly called for total martial law, calling upon United States Military 's support to help protect Chicago 's citizens and patrol Chicacgo 's streets. So far in 2015, over 2,300 people have been shot in the city of Chicago, and it is only a matter of days until the death toll surpasses four hundred on the year. There are a number of factors that contribute to this inflated level of violent crime. Some would point to loose gun restrictions, others to gang fragmentation. I believe the most influential factor leading to these high rates of crime in certain

This reading will focus on two different areas of Baltimore City which are the Western district of Sandtown-Winchester and the Southwestern district of Irvington. Emphasis will be on the demographics and crime trends in these areas of the city. According to the 2013 Censors Bureau, the population in Sandtown-Winchester totals 36,514 thousand and of that amount 16,732 are males and 19,782 are females. The area is a predominantly African-American community; however, with a diverse blend of other ethnic groups. The population in the community is made up of 14,331 families and of those numbers 3,995 marriages. The average household income consists of $39,314 and the middle being $ $26,077. Very few people have high school education, 23.7 % graduated high school, and 32.5% attended college. Giving the outline of society, the work-related employment is white-collar office jobs and the other types of work are those of a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor. Although, there are many other low-income

The chapter goes on to overview the crime crisis happening the United States in the 1980s through the 1990s. After exploring possible causes of the problem and how bad everything has gotten, the authors go on to explore possible solutions to the crime epidemic. The solutions are quite varied, well thought out, and are supported with statistical facts. For example in talking about the effect of gun buyback programs and their effect on homicide: “Given the number of handguns in the United States and the number of homicides each year, the likelihood that a particular gun was used to kill someone that year in 1 in 10,000. The typical gun buyback program

The focus of this theory is on the association between social control, the neighborhood structure, and crime (Kubrin & Weitzer, 2003). Social disorganization is the incapability of the community to solve significant problems and achieve common goals. The theory posits that residential mobility, poverty, ethnic heterogeneity, and weak social networks decrease the ability of the neighborhood to manage the behavior of people and hence the likelihood of crime is increased (Kubrin & Weitzer, 2003). Therefore, the social and physical environments of neighborhoods can increase the chances robbery. Factors such as unemployment, vandalized buildings, and poverty can thus be used to explain the occurrence of robbery. When the robbery rates have increased in a neighborhood, an examination of the social and physical environment can yield answers to robbery patterns.

The crimes in Milwaukee are becoming a big thing for everyone and it’s putting Milwaukee higher and higher in the ranks of the most dangerous cities of America... The occasional crime has occurred in Milwaukee and in every city around the world but lately the crime in Milwaukee has been getting out of control and it’s beginning to become a very unsafe place for everyone. The probability of being a victim in a violent crime is 1 in 16. That’s not good and we can definitely improve this and make Milwaukee once again a better place. The most problematic areas in Milwaukee are the North and East sides. These issues are affecting everyone living in these areas, not only mentally as they’re so afraid that something will happen to them but also physically as so many innocent residents have been shot and killed or were put in very critical conditions from gunshot wounds. This is primarily due to stray bullets hitting them or being in the wrong place at the wrong time when a dispute is

Murder in the city occurs due to different reasons, and there is an interconnection of various factors that motivate individuals to commit crimes. Key factors for this phenomenon are social, economic, and political. Murder in the city can be analyzed or investigated from sociological approach since those who commit the crimes have to undergo a decision-making process for them to identify who to commit their heinous crime or whether they are justified to do.

In this paper I will discuss and explain anatomy of a crime decline in New York City as well as if in these days can we say that the city is safe. Purpose of this book " The City That Become Safe " written by Franklin E. Zimring is to show us how crime rate changed during 1990 to 2009. According to author this book presents a detailed profile of New York City crime over 20 years period. Book provides the vital statistics of the crime drop by type of crime, by borough, and by year. There are two reasons that such exhaustive detail is required as a beginning to the study. First, the size and the length of the drop are without precedent in the recorded history of American urban crime. The second reason that the details of the crime decline are needed is as a road map for explaining what changes in the city and its government might have caused this epic decline. The more we know about the specific character of the decline- when it happened, where it happened, which offenses- the better our capacity for sorting through different theories of what caused the drop. In addition, shifts the focus from the two decades of the decline to an assessment of current conditions in the city. How safe is New York City?.

Many factors generate crime. That ‘inner morality’ necessary to resist the temptation to rape, rob, or kill weakens in an environment of broken homes, systemic poverty, ethical relativism, religious decline. Poverty ’causes’ crime in general in the same way that pornography causes sex crimes and television violence causes violence by children: it is a predispositive condition. If the family life could be strengthened, raise the living standard, instill character values this could have an impact on lowering the crime rate.