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Jan 28, 2024 · CHICAGO — One person has died and multiple people were injured after a series of shootings and an armed robbery Saturday night and early Sunday morning across the city’s South Side. Chicago...
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Hernandez-Sutton’s house sits at the eastern edge of the six-by-10-block area of Police Beat 1132, which is bordered by Jackson Boulevard, Roosevelt Road and Springfield and Kildare avenues. Police logged 400 alerts from its ShotSpotter gunshot detection system in that area in 2021. Those bullets hit one or more people 73 times, the most shootings ...
The two-year spike in killings in Chicago mirrors a national phenomenon. At least 12 American cities saw record numbersof homicides last year, and from 2019 to 2020, the number of murders nationwide jumped 30%, the largest single-year increase in 50 years. In Chicago, the increase in murders from 2019 to 2020 was 55%, according to CPD homicide data...
But Lightfoot’s wide-ranging response to crime hasn’t won over critics on the City Council. Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) has emerged as one of the mayor’s loudest detractors and a more conservative alderperson. Lopez called for more aggressive policing, a “get back to basics” approach he said is needed to contain crime before shifting to programs that...
Patrick Sharkey, a criminologist and professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, said policymakers must look for new, more equitable solutions to violent crime. Sharkey’s book, “Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence,” described how “broken windows” policing strategies pr...
If there is a glimmer of hope to Chicago’s murder statistics in 2021, it’s the rate of increase dropped sharply, said Rick Rosenfeld, a researcher at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, who is tracking crime statistics during the pandemic for the National Council on Criminal Justice. The spike in 2020 followed by a leveling off in 2021 are patter...
3 days ago · CHICAGO — Police are offering a warning to South Side residents after a string of arsons. Authorities say they are investigating five fires that were set between Wednesday, March 27, and Sund…
Jun 15, 2021 · CNN — Four people were killed and another four were hospitalized Tuesday morning in a shooting inside a residence on Chicago’s South Side. The shooting occurred around 5:42 a.m. (6:42 a.m....
Sep 30, 2011 · updated Apr 23 2024. This dataset reflects reported incidents of crime that have occurred in the City of Chicago over the past year, minus the most recent seven days of data. Data is extracted from the Chicago Police Department's CLEAR (Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting) system.
