#506
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The number of homicides
last year in Chicago
But it is more than just a
number.
Think about it...
We did.
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There's 365 days in a year.
One person each day.
It accumulates.
There's 365 days in a year.
One person each day.
It accumulates.
The end of the year total: 506.
There is one (maybe two or three) homicides a day.
And there's a chance all of them haven't been logged.
Everyday, somebody's life is in danger of being taken away in the city we call Chicago, or better yet, Chi-raq.
-Lamar Colyer
There's 162 games in an MLB season.
A span for six, seven months.
A player can play every game for the next three years.
And it still won't equal the amount of homicides Chicago had in 2012.
-Lamar Colyer
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Five-hundred-six people have 506 pairs of eyes.
Think about the number of pairs of eyes you look at, gaze into,
glare at, glance at and unintentionally meet on a daily basis.
On average, the number would not even be close to 506.
But that is the number of sets of eyes that will no longer see,
no longer blink,
no longer cry,
no longer open
due to homicide in Chicago last year.
The owners of those eyes will never see justice done for them
because they will never see anything again.
-Meredith Dobes
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When I sit down and think about the 506 people
who died in the year of 2012,
I think of 506 people who were cheated out of the chance
to watch another sunrise.
I think of 506 lives with hopes dreams
and some family ties that have been broken
because 506 thieves stole 506 lives in the heat of the night
and at the dawn of day.
They even stole lives while children were at play.
I think of 506 people killed in 506 different ways.
I think of at least 6 mothers cries screams and sighs.
I think of how hard it must be for these mothers to sleep
through
the night next to a room where their seed once laid.
I think of at least 506 friends,
associates and next of kin
who will never be able to greet
their love ones again.
When I think about these murder victims
I begin to wonder why
all of these victims killers have not been locked in a cage
for their unjustifiable acts of rage.
-Latricia Cherise Wilson
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506 bodies lay dead.
2,024 grandparents weap.
1,012 eyes closed forever.
506 mouths to never speak.
5,060 fingers will never hold another hand.
1 casket, holding 1 woman or 1 man.
What will it take for a city to fix
the issues beyond the number 506
-Christopher Sutter
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The average
person stands approximately 66 inches tall.
Imagine
stacking 506 people on top of each other in standing position.
That would
be equivalent to 33,396 inches.
Now imagine
the height of Chicago’s Willis Tower: 20,748 inches.
The number
of people killed in 2012 is equivalent to
about one
and a half times the tallest building in America.
-Alesia Wright
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