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Jul 9, 2021 · July 9, 2021, 2:41 PM PDT. By Elliott Ramos. CHICAGO — When Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said during a press conference last month that the city was seeing a downward trend in violent...
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Jul 28, 2021 · News. Violence spike of 2020 widened familiar safety gap between city neighborhoods, University of Chicago Crime Lab analysis shows. Show Caption. of. By Annie Sweeney and Stephanie Casanova....
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Aug 1, 2021 · From Jan. 1 until July 31, there have been a total of 1,973 shootings in the city. That is up from 1,779 in that same time last year and 1,210 in 2019. For 2021, shootings left 2,471 people...
- Cops Admit Pulling Back
- ‘A Big Trust Issue’
- ‘The Ferguson Effect’
- Mayor: I Don’T See A Work Stoppage
- More Detectives?
In 2019, as the overall arrest rate continued to fall, City Hall agreed to a federal consent decree aimed at overhauling the police department following the killing by a police officer of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014 on the Southwest Side. The department has since made reforms aimed at changing how officers do their jobs, includinga stricter...
In the South Chicago Police District, where LaTanya Gordon’s sons were killed two years ago, the arrest rate fell by 64% between 2019 and 2021, the largest decrease in any district in that period. The rate has increased slightly this year as crime has risen significantly. Gordon points to “this silence that the neighborhood gives,” noting that many...
Some studies have shown that, when police make fewer arrests and stops because of mandates from supervisors or increased oversight or even in the wake of an officer’s death, the number of low-level arrests tumble with no effect on violent crime — even when the drop in police activity is significant. When police pull back after a high-profile killin...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and police Supt. David Brown have said city officials “cannot arrest our way out of”the violence that disproportionately affects minority communities on the South Side and the West Side. But, in January, days after closing the books on the city’s deadliest year in a quarter-century, Lightfoot and Brown threatened to demote poli...
As Chicago and other cities have seen arrest numbers plummet, one possible response that’s come up is: Hire more detectives. The Chicago Police Department has about 180 homicide detectives and is aiming to increase that number to reflect a national standard of three to five murder cases per homicide detective, according to a police spokeswoman. The...
Jan 2, 2022 · The year of 2021 ended as one of the most violent on record in Chicago, as a rise in the number of shootings left more people dead than in any single year in a quarter century, according to...
Jan 13, 2022 · In 2021, there were 25,894 violent crimes reported in Chicago. That is slightly higher than in 2020 and 2019, but within the range of normal crime levels in previous years.
Jul 27, 2021 · As of the morning of July 26, there were 3,428 in Chicago’s electronic monitoring program and roughly 72% of them were charged with violent crime or gun-related crime, according to the...
