Shootings in Chicago are down 20% through the end of summer and homicides have fallen 16%, according to an ABC News analysis: The police department talks about why
ABC's Pierre Thomas traveled to Chicago for an exclusive conversation with police Superintendent David Brown as part of ABC's continuing coverage of guns in America.Over one recent weekend in Chicago, two children under the age of 10 became victims of the city's rampant gun violence.
"It's the most complex policing landscape ever in this country's history. We are making progress, but the complexities make it such that it is so fragile," Brown told Thomas. "The ebbs and flows of violence are persistent." What's behind the small but encouraging decline? The Chicago police credit both community engagement as well as a new, more surgical deployment of officers to crime scenes after an analysis by the department showed half of all shootings and homicides occurred on 55 "beats," or areas that are roughly the size of a block.
Police say they have another powerful tool in their investigations, however: The department uses a system called "ShotSpotter," where sound sensors are placed throughout Chicago to detect and locate gunfire. In 2021, the department said it had cleared about half of its homicide cases, a nearly 20-year high, though a quarter of those did not result in prosecutors bringing charges, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/4/4/23006300/chicago-police-murder-clearance-rate-2021-detectives-cook-county-states-attorney-editorial"We're talking about policing, but this is about economic development," he said. "This is about poverty.
Brown showed Thomas what he says is an example of how that support has made an impact, visiting an area once known for being a crime hotspot that's now been turned into a basketball court and green space for the community.
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