A new report from the Council on Criminal Justice shows most major crime categories in Chicago are down below pre-pandemic ...

For the 2024 election season, we've updated this reporting to cover the latest changes — and debates — around crime stats. Two key crime reports released by the Justice Department this fall reveal a ...

President Donald Trump has claimed that cashless bail reforms have led to rising crime in U.S. cities. However, data has not ...

As of August 2022, overall violent crime is up 36% in Chicago compared to the same timeframe in 2021. My own baby brother, Christian, was murdered in Chicago on June 24 this year.

Violent crime in Chicago plummets in first half of 2025, mayor says by: Julian Crews, Alonzo Small Posted: Jul 1, 2025 / 05:42 PM CDT Updated: Jul 1, 2025 / 05:42 PM CDT ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Violent crime in Chicago is down significantly in the first half of the year, representing the steepest decline in more than a decade, according to Mayor Brandon Johnson ...

Local officials in California, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma have pushed for new measures against violent crime. And officials in New York and Philadelphia have faced criticism for ...

As a result, reported violent and property crime dropped 15.9% and 27.3% respectively between 2020 and 2021, while at the same time victimization for violent crime rose 0.9% and property decreased ...

Chicago's overall violent crime rate was 402.66 violent crimes per 100,000 people from January to June of 2015, according to my math (the FBI only included totals in their report, so I had to make ...