HeyJackass! is the only site with trustworthy statistics about crime in Chicago. There are a few reasons for that. 11 Years of Chicago Values
On January 25th, 2013, we launched a questionably named site with the simple idea of illustrating “Chicago values”. To this day, we still have no idea what Chicago values are or what they are supposed to represent. No matter its representation or meaning, it made for a fantastic tagline.
In the past 11 years, we’ve recorded over 7,000 homicides, over 30,000 shot and wounded, hundreds of “death investigations”, thousands of carjackings, and over a billion dollars in CPD overtime all of which have resulted in nearly a million manually entered, stupidity-related data points.
There is more, plus a link to the Substack with even more, including the "Chicago Values" origin.
Back in 2012, Rahm [Emanuel] was only in the second year of his eight-year run and decided to get involved in a local zoning matter regarding well-known beef-o-phobes, Chick-fil-A. During the controversy in which the alderman didn’t like CFA’s CEO’s politics, Rahm declared the now-immortalized Chicago values line:“Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values. And if you’re gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values.”
- 9.5, July 25th, 2012
No one has defined what those values are, but lots of people die there every year due to lack of certain values.
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