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For example, in 2023, the homicide rate in Chicago (one of the most segregated cities in the country) was 20 times higher for Black residents than it was for white residents. The good news: Year-to-date, homicides have decreased 12%, and shootings are down 14% percent.
4 sty 2022 · In 2021 alone, the city of Chicago recorded its most deadliest year since the 1990s after the Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed that 836 of the more than 1,000 homicides it handled occurred in Chi-Town.
10 cze 2024 · Research from the Illinois Policy Institute found Black and Hispanic Chicagoans made up 95% of the city’s homicide victims during the past 12 months. Black Chicagoans were 20 times more likely...
In 1965 there were 284 Black homicide victims and in 1973 there were 592 Black homicide victims. Thus, the number of homicides with Black victims more than doubled in the nine year period. Similarly, the number of interracial homicides increased in the nine year period from thirty-six to 103.
It is estimated that 80% of homicides in Chicago are committed with firearms. [181] Chicago recorded 780 murders in 2020. This figure represents an increase of more than 55% over 2019. [182] On the Fourth of July weekend 2021, at least 100 people, mostly African-American, were shot, 18 of them fatally. Murders for 2021, are trending higher than ...
30 maj 2024 · Black Chicagoans were over 20 times more likely to become homicide victims during the past 12 months than their white peers, with 9-in-10 homicides on the South Side and West Side.
Despite making up just one-third of Chicago’s population, more than three-quarters of the city’s homicide victims are Black. Share of homicide victims by race, year-to-date (1991-2023) Based on data from January 1st, 2023 – December 13th, 2023. The share of homicide victims over age 30 has increased significantly since 2019, from 41% to 53%.
