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[shooter444]

39,000 homicides: Retracing 60 years of murder in Chicago
By Kyle Bentle, Jonathon Berlin, Ryan Marx and Kori RumoreContact Reporters Homicide Crime Julian King Garry McCarthy Eddie Johnson U.S. Department of Justice Darnell Donerson


The spike in violent crime that has plagued Chicago since 2016 has even more gravity when viewed in comparison with six decades of homicides in Chicago. Since 1957, the city has had homicide totals of 700 or more nearly half the time, 27 of 60 years, and has been lower than 500 a third of the time, 19 of 60 years. To understand this long-term view, the Tribune asked two experts to give perspective as to what was behind Chicago crime decade by decade, and combed through news coverage going back to the 1960s. The Tribune turned to John Hagedorn, a professor of criminology at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has written extensively on Chicago's gangs as well as Wyndell Watkins, a retired Washington, D.C., deputy chief of police with more than 40 years of public safety experience.............

[storage_man]

Is this due to any reference to the Phoenix/Mesa Police departments ????

[Twobadazbrothers]

Long read but thank you for posting

[knockonit]

too bad the cow doesn't kick over another lantern.

[Mr_Maim]

TL;DR

[Pro2a]

A little bit o' TLDR for me too, but.......
"To be sure, policing the city's most dangerous streets can be harrowing. Nearly 6,000 illegal guns have been seized in the city so far this year — a staggering amount of firepower that far outpaces other big cities."
Preaching to the choir here, but all this with the tightest gun laws around

[shooter444]

Laws are not legislated to control criminals.

[Flash]

Only law abiding citizens obey laws.

Criminals and psychopaths ignore them.

[Lwstarks]

Very informative, thank you

[338lapua]

What they really need is gun control, oh never mind.