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Year End Calculus

With mere hours left in 2024, we wanted to post our usual note to illustrate how the year-end totals are accounted for and how best to compare this year to years past.

Past year-end totals reflected on this site account for resolved death investigations, found bodies, and late passings that can and will occur for many years after the clock strikes midnight on Jan 1st. We apply those incidents toward the time of occurrence, not the date of death. Other agencies, such as the CPD, choose to add those resolved death investigations, found bodies, and late passings to the year in which the death was recorded.

Looking back at 2023, when the clock struck midnight on January 1st, 2024, the final totals for 2023 were:
Shot & Killed: 575
Shot & Wounded: 2,501
Total Shot: 3,076
Total Homicides: 644

Since then, the totals have shifted slightly as additional homicides have been recorded:
Shot & Killed: 577 (+2)
Shot & Wounded: 2,500 (-1)
Total Shot: 3,077 (+1)
Total Homicides: 650 (+6)

Looking back at 2022, when the clock struck midnight on January 1st, 2023, the final totals for 2022 were:
Shot & Killed: 665
Shot & Wounded: 2,937
Total Shot: 3,602
Total Homicides: 734

Over the two past years, the totals have shifted more so as additional homicides have been recorded:
Shot & Killed: 666 (+1)
Shot & Wounded: 2,937 (0)
Total Shot: 3,603 (+1)
Total Homicides: 739 (+5)

In addition to the known shifts over time, the Medical Examiner routinely listed homicides where we cannot locate a corresponding CPD report. These cases usually involve individuals who were injured at some point in the mid-to-distant past only to pass away today. These homicides are left out of our count because we do not have a definite date, time and location. This year there are 13 such cases.

Final note: All murders are homicides, but not all homicides are murder. We count homicides that occur within the Chicago city limits, whereas the CPD counts murders within their jurisdiction. Therefore, the two totals will never equal one another, we will always be higher, while they’ll always be lower.

Wherever 2024 finishes on January 1st when compared to the last 10 years, it’ll be an average year regardless how it’s reported – 6 years will be worse and 4 years won’t be as bad. Average will be considered average by most, but the best-ist evah! by others.

T-Shirts, Sweatshirts & Crap

He’s making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who’s been naughty. Santa Chalkie is back in town for just a few more days, and then you’ll have to wait until next year.

Substack, IG, X & Others

We’ve set up a Substack channel where we’ll be posting longer form content that doesn’t necessarily work on the site. Subscribe if you like, or not. We spend most of our social media capital on Twitter/X, however we’ve been more active on Instagram of late and are close to becoming influencers, but only if influencer means having no influence. We’ve also set up a TikTok account so that we can participate in the banning. Plus we have a toehold on a number of smaller, alternative social media platforms to be used primarily as “just-in-case” backups: Odysee, Rumble, Minds and GETTR.

HeyJackass! Adjacent

If you’re a Pokémon player or collector, be sure to check out our colleague’s eBay store full of Pokémon cards and lots. If you’re not, tell someone who is. We’re told sportsball cards and comics are on the way as well.

Police Scanner Frequencies

As more and more CPD frequencies move towards encryption, scanners are becoming useless. Check out CrimeIsDown’s Live Audio Feeds to listen to any zone that hasn’t been encrypted (yet) or use the official feeds with a 30+ minute delay on Broadcastify.