Chicago sees decline in murders, other violent crimes for second straight year
Chicago recorded fewer murders in 2018 than last year, authorities said Monday, a tally that marked the city’s second year of declining homicides after a surge of violent crime in 2016.
The Chicago Police Department said there was a 27 percent decline in murders in 2018 from 2016 — approximately 557 murders this year — when the city recorded a staggering 762 homicides.
There were 648 murders in Chicago in 2017, the department said in a news release.
The department also recorded declines in shootings, robberies, burglaries, car thefts and car-jackings in 2018, the release said. It did not say whether rapes had fallen or increased.
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson has previously saidthat “emboldened offenders who acted without a fear of penalty from the criminal justice system” were behind the 2016 crime spike.
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