> So you've spoken to a large number of the hundreds of thousands of African Americans who live in the neighborhoods most plagued by crime and know that they do

> So you've spoken to a large number of the hundreds of thousands of African Americans who live in the neighborhoods most plagued by crime and know that they don't complain about it? Chicago is really segregated. It's very easy to forget that one's experience in an expensive, largely-white, progressive, north-side neighborhood isn't representative of the city as a whole. Moreover, if the only "diverse" people you speak with are those who have had good educations, landed well-paying jobs, moved to a nice north-side neighborhood, and so on, you might not realize that they aren't representative of "diverse" communities more broadly (particularly when the portrait painted by the media differs so much from reality). TL;DR--we have to be careful when we generalize about "what life is like in Chicago" because it's easy to extrapolate our own experiences onto tons of people who live in neighborhoods that don't remotely resemble our own (and I strongly suspect that's what's happening when the OP says "most of the people I hear complain about crime are old white people that don't live here any more").