Chalk it up to bias [Michael Ramirez letter]
Patricia Heck, Sewanee, Tennessee
Michael Ramirez's Sept. 9 editorial cartoon, "Windy city," continued his habit of twisting reality, usually against Democrats. He implied a massive murder rate in Chicago, reflecting the Trump administration's argument for sending in the National Guard. In reality, the city's 2024 homicide rate of 21.7 per 100,000 residents ranked it eighth in a Rochester Institute of Technology report on U.S. cities, below three Southern cities: New Orleans (34.7), Atlanta (24.7) and Richmond (23). Incidentally, the rate in Los Angeles, where Trump sent National Guard troops, was 7.1.
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