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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Unless reports of more overnight homicides come in, it looks like Chicago will close out the first half of the year with less than 200 homicides, according to heyjackass data. It's been at least a decade since Chicago has met that mark.
Homicides through 6/30:
2025: 198
2024: 293
2023: 329
2022: 330
2021: 365
2020: 355
2019: 259
Source: heyjackass.com
I think we can now safely say that Chicago's pandemic-induced violent crime spike has finally waned.
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It would be nice to think this leads to a virtuous cycle. If there are 40% less shootings that police have to respond too, you'd think that at least *some* of the time they save can be devoted to preventing new shootings.