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Some additional thoughts about how a 2015 ACLU consent decree with the Chicago Police Department contributed to the 2016 homicide spike--responding to tweets from Professor John Pfaff and to comments from the ACLU. (reason.com)
On Monday, I discussed Professor Fowles and my article about what caused the 2016 Chicago homicide spike . (reason.com)
Tambrasha Hudson (C) is comforted as she joins demonstrators protesting the shooting death of her son 16-year-old Pierre Loury near the location where he was killed on April 12, 2016 in Chicago. (go.com)
A member of the Chicago Police Department collects bullet casings at the scene of a shooting near the intersection of South Morgan Street and West 97th Street in Chicago on July 3, 2016. (go.com)
At least three homicides have already occurred in Chicago in 2018, the violence spiking following a year in which the Windy City celebrated fewer homicides than in 2016. (foxnews.com)
News of the deaths came the same day the Chicago Police Department released statistics showing the number of homicides fell from 771 in 2016 to 650 last year. (foxnews.com)
Despite the drop, in a repeat of 2016, the homicides still eclipsed the number of killings in New York City and Los Angeles combined. (foxnews.com)
The city of Chicago saw a drop in both shootings and homicides in 2017 compared with the historically violent year the city had in 2016. (scrippsnews.com)
According to the Chicago Police Department, homicides citywide dropped by nearly 16 percent - from 771 in 2016 to 650 in 2017. (scrippsnews.com)
Overall, homicides are up 50% from last year as 2020 continues to be on pace as deadlier than 2016, when the city was hit with its worst violence since the 1990s. (gopusa.com)
In 2016, homicides among Chicagoans aged 15 to 24 drastically spiked. (northwestern.edu)
You see that spike in 2016, which is right after the consent decree, but then you see the youth homicide rate decline so rapidly again in 2017, and there was no change to the 'stop-and-frisk' practice," Mason said. (northwestern.edu)
At the peak in 2016, the annual rate was 90 per 100,000 people (average monthly rate of 7.5 per 100,000 people), meaning there was a 77% increase in monthly youth homicides in 2016. (northwestern.edu)
After a bloody August saw homicides climb to a 20-year high, a deadly Labor Day weekend sent Chicago's 2016 homicides soaring past 500, surpassing total murders for 2015 with four months still left in the year. (spacecoastdaily.com)
The team focused on Chicago, Illinois, in 2016 - one of the deadliest years in the nation's third-largest city - when 762 people were killed. (scienceblog.com)
CHICAGO - Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, part of Everytown for Gun Safety, today responded to reports that the city of Chicago recorded its 600th homicide of 2016. (momsdemandaction.org)
Additional facts about gun violence in Chicago and 29 other large cities in the U.S., and case studies of antiviolence programs, are available in the 2016 report Strategies for Reducing Gun Violence in American Cities . (momsdemandaction.org)
This includes efforts resenting increases from 2015-2016 when these rates were 4.7 to prevent firearm homicide and suicide in the first place and and 3.9, respectively. (cdc.gov)

A long and violent year in Chicago ended with a record number of shootings and the most homicides in two decades, police say. (go.com)
Homicides were up more than 50%, and shootings continued to be a problem just minutes into the new year. (cbsnews.com)
Last year saw more than 3,200 shootings in Chicago and more than 4,000 victims. (cbsnews.com)
Even so, shootings and homicides are down in West Pullman, as they are generally across the city. (suntimes.com)
It took Chicago longer this year to reach 500 homicides than it did the last two years, when the grim milestone was reached in August as shootings rose at a pace not seen in the city since the 1990s, according to data from the Cook County medical examiner's office. (suntimes.com)
The article includes sub-lists for homicides involving school shootings, familicides, and police shootouts. (wikipedia.org)
Chicago, with a population of 2.7 million, registered more shootings and homicides last year than any other U.S. city, according to FBI and Chicago police data, and its murder clearance rate - a measure of solved and closed cases - is one of the country's lowest. (huffpost.com)
While CNN has tried to put a nice face on the problem, reporting that May marked the 15th consecutive month of declining "gun violence," The Crime Report website reported May 30, "Despite the 19 percent decline in murders and 20 percent decrease in shootings, Chicago has tallied nearly as many homicides in 2018 as New York City (106) and Los Angeles (92) combined. (libertyparkpress.com)
Stuart began subscribing to news alerts about homicides across Chicago and thought there was something different about the way shootings were covered on the mostly white North Side compared to other largely minority areas of the city. (scienceblog.com)

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Attempted carjackings in Chicago have skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching a 20-year high in 2020. (cbsnews.com)
Specifically the report notes a drop in burglaries and robberies, but 2020 brought highs in violent crime in Chicago. (cbsnews.com)
Chicago police did take an aggressive approach in 2020 to connect with communities of high crime, but as 2020 exposed rifts between police and the public nationwide, it deepened the need for change. (cbsnews.com)
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed 875 gun related homicides in 2020, breaking the previous record of 838 set in 1994. (cbsnews.com)
The office handled a total of 970 homicides in 2020. (cbsnews.com)
The DCNF analyzed both police department data and homicide reports compiled by local news outlets to determine how black people have been victimized in the wake of the 2020 crime spike. (dailycaller.com)
The percentage of murder victims in Chicago that were black increased from 70% in 2020 to 81% in 2021 while that figure increased from 60% to 90% year-over-year in Milwaukee, the data showed. (dailycaller.com)
While murder statistics in just six cities were analyzed, the number of homicides has spiked roughly 18% across the country compared to 2020, according to a random sample of 37 cities, the NYT reported . (dailycaller.com)
While black people represented 207 of the murder victims in Chicago through the period last year ending on June 22, 2020, they represented a whopping 257 of the victims this year, according to the Sun-Times database. (dailycaller.com)
The percentage of murder victims in Chicago that were black increased from 70% in 2020 to 81% in 2021. (dailysignal.com)
Greensboro has set a new record for homicides with 61 in 2020. (rhinotimes.com)
At that press conference he also noted that, with 29 homicides in 2020, Greensboro was on pace to break the homicide record and that was a record nobody wanted to break. (rhinotimes.com)
On Monday, Nov. 30, James held a press conference to talk about the 56 homicides so far in 2020 and noted that with a month to go Greensboro had already broken the previous record of 45 homicides in a year set in 2019. (rhinotimes.com)
Bars and nightclubs cannot logically be blamed for the increase in violent crime and homicides in 2020, although Vaughan in her email states, "We have seen an increase in violent crime connected to establishments that serve alcohol. (rhinotimes.com)
Instead, the number of homicides has increased from 45 in 2019 to 61 in 2020. (rhinotimes.com)

With six weeks to go, based on current trends, the Windy City will almost certainly crest 750 homicides by the end of the year. (thetruthaboutguns.com)
Chicago Police posted encouraging news about the city's once-staggering homicide rate Tuesday and continued a cautiously optimistic trend that law enforcement is stemming the tide of violence in the Windy City. (huffpost.com)
Authorities announced Thursday (Nov. 1) that in the month of October the Windy City saw its second lowest homicide number in the last 30 years. (hiphopwired.com)

Since our paper was announced in The Chicago Tribune , distinguished law professor John Pfaff has tweeted a series of comments about our article, and the ACLU has commented as well. (reason.com)
The 51-year-old victim was identified as Janusz Kolodgziejczyk and pronounced dead at the scene fewer than 30 minutes after the shooting, the Chicago Tribune reported. (foxnews.com)
But while RedEye can bring to its task the resources of a Tribune Company daily newspaper, Homicide Watch is two people: Laura and Chris Amico. (chicagoreader.com)
The Chicago Tribune had done something along the same lines back in 1993, when it kept a promise to cover in detail "every murder of a child 14 and under in Cook, Lake, DuPage, Will, McHenry and Kane Counties. (chicagoreader.com)
In the past weekend alone, there was one homicide and 13 shooting victims in a 36-hour span -- largely on the city's South and West Sides, the Tribune reports. (huffpost.com)
In all, 65 people were shot during the holiday weekend, 31 of them between 6 a.m. Monday and 3 a.m. Tuesday, The Chicago Tribune reported. (spacecoastdaily.com)
The shooting occurred at a restaurant in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood, where people were gathered to mourn the death of Jamayah Fields, 20, who was shot and killed on Monday, the Chicago Tribune reported. (huffpost.com)
The team examined 2,245 news articles about homicide victims from the Chicago Sun-Times ' Homicide Watch , the Chicago Tribune 's Homicide Tracker and the now-defunct DNAInfo database to determine how the individuals were covered. (scienceblog.com)
There have been at least 3,475 people shot this year in Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune , and the vast majority of Chicago homicides are committed with guns. (momsdemandaction.org)

Of the 12 killings in Chicago over Christmas weekend, he said, 90 percent of the victims had gang affiliations, criminal histories and were pre-identified by the department's 'strategic subject algorithm' as being a potential offender or victim of gun violence. (go.com)
It paid attention to heretofore unnamed and unnoticed homicide victims in the nation's capital. (chicagoreader.com)
Two people in South Chicago welcomed the new year as victims of gunfire, just 12 minutes into 2021. (cbsnews.com)
Black people were the victims of 78% of homicides and Latinos accounted for more than 16% of homicide deaths. (cbsnews.com)
It is divided into four subject areas as follows: Multiple homicides - homicides having multiple victims, including incidents involving spree killers, acts of terrorism, two mass homicides involving criminal acts causing airline crashes, and a mass suicide directed by a cult leader. (wikipedia.org)
Forrest Stuart , associate professor of sociology in Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences , worked with University of Chicago researchers Kailey White and Shannon L. Morrissey to quantify how local news organizations cover homicide victims in minority neighborhoods. (scienceblog.com)
Sociologist Forrest Stuart worked with colleagues to quantify how local news organizations cover homicide victims in minority neighborhoods. (scienceblog.com)
Furthermore, homicide victims in majority-white neighborhoods received about 450 words more of text on average than those killed in majority-Black neighborhoods. (scienceblog.com)
In Chicago, black people have been the victims of roughly 81% of the 317 murders in the first six months of 2021, data shows. (dailycaller.com)
Most major cities have limited statistics tracking 2021 murders and homicide victims. (dailycaller.com)
Methods -Data were gathered from vital statistics reports and law enforcement records on the characteristics of suicide victims (n = 4799) and homicide suspects (n = 5369) from 1990 through 1994. (bmj.com)
Males accounted for approximately 85% support individual persons and communities at increased risk, of firearm homicide victims during both reporting periods for as well as lessening harms after firearm homicide and suicide the 50 largest MSAs combined as well as nationally (National have occurred. (cdc.gov)

It included information on 2,271 people between the ages of 15 and 24 who died by homicide between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2018. (northwestern.edu)
According to the Crime Report , "The city has had 191 murders so far in 2018, compared with 237 murders at the same point last year, and is on pace once again to record more homicides than any other U.S. city. (libertyparkpress.com)
Friends and family comfort one another after the funeral for Jemel Roberson, 26, on Nov. 24, 2018, at House of Hope Church in Chicago. (chicagotribune.com)
The findings youth firearm homicide rate for the large MSAs combined was in this report underscore a continued and urgent need for a 4.9 during 2018-2019 and the national rate was 4.3, both rep- comprehensive approach to prevention. (cdc.gov)

Beyond Chicago, he said, "a growing number of major cities are receiving a significant increase in robberies, homicides and aggravated assaults. (go.com)
To date, very little epidemiologic research has been conducted on the circumstances surrounding taxicab driver homicides and assaults, and it remains unclear which safety interventions are most effective in reducing violence-related injuries. (cdc.gov)
Since 2003, there are more than 500 homicides per year in the workplace, with 1.7 million workers injured each year during workplace assaults. (cdc.gov)
High Risk Occupations: Approximately 75% of homicides and assaults occurred among four industries: retail, services, public administration and transportation. (cdc.gov)
Risk Factors for Homicides/Assaults in the Workplace: 1. (cdc.gov)

Last year's total represents a 57 percent increase over 2015, the biggest spike in murders in Chicago in 60 years, according to the Associated Press. (go.com)
The year's third homicide happened at around 5 p.m. Monday in the Fuller Park neighborhood, police said. (foxnews.com)
By mid-September, Cook County had already surpassed all of last year's homicide totals, according to the medical examiner's office. (gopusa.com)

On Jan. 18, a nationwide extraditable warrant was issued for attempted first-degree intentional homicide. (newsbreak.com)
Firearms account for an increasing proportion of intentional injury deaths in the US, especially among the homicides of young persons: the proportion of homicide deaths attributed to firearms among 15-34 year olds rose from 66.4% in 1985 1 to 79.8% in 1997, 3 the most recent year for which final data are available. (bmj.com)
Overdose toxicity refers to serious, often harmful, and sometimes fatal toxic reactions to an accidental overdose of a medication (because of an error on the part of the doctor, pharmacist, or person taking the medication) or to an intentional overdose (homicide or suicide). (msdmanuals.com)

Homicides have already nearly doubled this year, with more than 93 murders since the start of January. (thetruthaboutguns.com)
If the city does have 700 or more homicides this year, it will be the highest number of murders since 1998, when 704 people were killed . (thetruthaboutguns.com)
Murders in Hollywood: True Crime Stories of Homicide in the Hills. (wikipedia.org)
In Chicago, according to the report, the past 11 years have produced 5,534 murders, of which a whopping 74 percent did not result in an arrest. (libertyparkpress.com)
You know, the federal government set up the strike forces this summer with local law enforcement in Chicago and four other big cities to crack down on illegal guns, since so many of them are tied to crimes and murders. (kcbx.org)

At least 317 total homicides were committed in Chicago between Jan. 1, 2021 and June 22, 2021, according to a Chicago Sun-Times database. (dailycaller.com)
Homicide Detective Esteban Montenegro, right, answers questions for the prosecutor n the examination trial for former Dallas police officer Bryan Riser at the Frank Crowley Courts Building on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Dallas. (dallasnews.com)
Montenegro, who spent 13 years as a homicide detective, was placed on administrative leave in December 2021. (dallasnews.com)

Johnson said the violence in Chicago is mostly on the city's south and west sides, in areas with a history of gang conflicts. (go.com)
The 13 killed brought the city's skyrocketing homicide total to 512 - already well past the 491 logged in 2015. (spacecoastdaily.com)

It is true, of course, that our regression equations explain homicides (and shooting crimes) by using stop and frisk as an explanatory variable. (reason.com)
A linkage between stop-and-frisk tactics and homicides is an important finding in and of itself-a finding with which we hope Professor Pfaff might, to some degree, agree. (reason.com)
Several competing theories attempt to explain the rapid spike and decline in youth homicides, such as the 2015 consent agreement with the Chicago Police Department to reform "stop and frisk. (northwestern.edu)

Nor is it clear what sort of "socio-economic" statistics would have been relevant to explaining the homicide spike, which developed over a short period of time. (reason.com)
But since our goal was to explain the Chicago homicide spike, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with looking at Chicago data. (reason.com)
But it is curious that Professor Pfaff would take us to task for failing to look at this issue when, at the same time, he argues that the "best analysis" of the homicide spike was done by the University of Chicago Urban Lab. (reason.com)
In 2019, before the spike in gun violence, there were 550 homicides for the entire year. (suntimes.com)

Even when their other demographic attributes and characteristics of the incident itself were taken into consideration, persons under the age of 18 were substantially more likely than those 21 or more years old to use a firearm in the commission of a homicide (adjusted odds ratio = 2.59). (bmj.com)
Asians were less likely than white people to use a firearm in the commission of a suicide, whereas black people, Hispanics, and Asians were more likely than whites to use a firearm in the commission of a homicide. (bmj.com)
Although the sharp increase in homicide rates among US youth has begun to reverse 1 as overall homicide rates among other age groups have declined in recent years, 2 the public health challenge of reducing firearm fatalities is growing. (bmj.com)
Such efforts address the general population despite evidence of disparate risk across population groups, for example, an epidemic of firearm homicide among youth 1 and the growing use of firearms in suicide by elderly women. (bmj.com)
Firearm homicides and suicides represent an ongoing public and U01.4) and firearm suicides (codes X72-X74) among U.S. health concern in the United States. (cdc.gov)
Firearm homicide and suicide counts were tabulated of 28,372 firearm homicides (including 3,612 [13%] among for the 50 largest MSAs (by population rank midyear 2019). (cdc.gov)
This report is the fourth arm homicide rates for persons of all ages and annual firearm in a series* that provides statistics on firearm homicides and suicide rates for persons aged 10 years (data for persons aged suicides in major metropolitan areas. (cdc.gov)
Firearm homicide were age-adjusted to the year 2000 U.S. standard population and suicide rates were calculated for the 50 most populous profile. (cdc.gov)
Following a period of decreased firearm homicide rates consistent with applicable federal law and CDC policy. (cdc.gov)

Homicides last year in Chicago rose at the fastest rate in 60 years. (go.com)
City police said the first homicide of the New Year happened around 2:20 a.m. Monday when a man driving a Toyota Camry was shot in the back. (foxnews.com)
That's one statistic the Chicago Police Department seemed to brush by in its end of year crime report, which boasts an overall reduction in crime. (cbsnews.com)
With a couple of months still left to go in the year, Chicago has already managed to tie the 2011 mark for homicides. (securitymagazine.com)
The death of a 65-year old prisoner after an "altercation" with Illinois prison staff has been ruled a homicide according to records obtained by WBEZ. (wbez.org)
On Thursday, HeyJackass.com reported that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Sanctuary Paradise has hit 702 homicides for the year with the violence yesterday into this morning. (thetruthaboutguns.com)
702 homicides is the highest total in any year since 1998's 704. (thetruthaboutguns.com)
The city is nearing 400 homicides, but the number of people shot is down from last year. (essence.com)
After six more deaths over the weekend, homicides in Chicago continue to outpace last year. (essence.com)
There have been 391 homicides this year in Chicago, four more than last year. (essence.com)
The record for a September in Chicago was set the year before, when there were 109 homicides. (gopusa.com)
So far this year, there have been 588 homicides in Chicago compared with 392 last year, according to police statistics. (gopusa.com)
In releasing the latest numbers, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown noted the "unprecedented" challenges his officers have faced this year: the COVID-19 pandemic and the national outrage following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minnesota. (gopusa.com)
Note: A previous headline on this article misstated the year of the previous record-low homicide rate as 1956. (huffpost.com)
Chicago marked its 500th homicide of the year early Sunday afternoon on a block of well-kept homes in West Pullman, where Perry Anderson was gunned down as he stepped from his mother's house. (suntimes.com)
At this time last year, there had been 591 homicides, two years ago 550. (suntimes.com)
Jan 26 (Reuters) - A 12-year-old girl was among six people shot on Wednesday evening during a vigil in Chicago for a gunshot victim, local media said, the day after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened federal intervention to tackle gun violence in the city. (huffpost.com)
Homicides in the country's third-largest city have increased 38 percent, in the last year. (hiphopwired.com)
In this work, we report the homicide of a 16-year-old boy in a juvenile correctional unit, whose throat was cut with cruelty using two blades. (mdpi.com)
The body count continues to climb in Chicago, but it is lower than last year. (libertyparkpress.com)
Mr A, a 78-year-old man, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in December 2008 after the homicide of his wife. (psychiatrist.com)
For the second year in a row, cities nationwide are seeing a rise in gun violence and homicides. (kcbx.org)
I mean, last year saw a nearly 30% rise in homicides. (kcbx.org)

Eighty-nine percent of homicide deaths were males. (cbsnews.com)
Homicide is consistently among the top causes of work-related deaths. (cdc.gov)

This is now the sixth consecutive quarter that we've had significant reductions of murder and violence in the city," Chicago's Police Supt. Garry McCarthy told ABC Chicago in an interview Tuesday. (huffpost.com)
It is a complex problem with multidimensional facets to it," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Friday of Chicago's homicide rate. (spacecoastdaily.com)
The scores of dead and wounded in the early days of September follow 90 homicides in August, tied for Chicago's deadliest month since June 1996. (spacecoastdaily.com)
SOUTH SIDE - A homicide investigation was under way Wednesday after the body of an unidentified man was found near railroad tracks in the West Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, police said. (chicagotribune.com)

Even though the city of Chicago claims the murder rate is going down, in African American areas, it's either staying the same or going up. (urbanfaith.com)
A Dallas County grand jury declined on Friday to indict a Dallas police homicide detective accused of tampering with a murder investigation into a fellow officer. (dallasnews.com)

The medico-legal etiology of such wounds is commonly homicide, whereas suicides are infrequent, and accidental cases are rare. (mdpi.com)

Homicides in Chicago jumped to their highest level since 1996, when 796 were recorded, according to historical data from the Chicago Police Department. (go.com)
The last time Cook County saw more than 970 homicides was in 1996. (cbsnews.com)

Robbers were the most common type of work-related homicide assailant for men and the second-most common for women. (cdc.gov)

But then Pfaff moves on to criticize us because our model "has only a handful of variables, almost all of them official criminal justice statistics, no social-economic statistics, and all at the city level (despite the intense concentration of violence in Chicago). (reason.com)
I am proud of the progress our officers made in reducing gun violence all across the city in 2017," Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnson in a statement. (foxnews.com)
The majority of homicides were in the City of Chicago. (cbsnews.com)
Despite being larger, New York City and Los Angeles have in recent years recorded far fewer homicides. (suntimes.com)
The city of Chicago is facing a huge killing epidemic, one which Mayor Rom Emanuel will have to make a top priority. (hiphopwired.com)
Three in five guns recovered at Chicago crime scenes were first sold in other states, according to a 2014 trace analysis by the city and the University of Chicago Crime Lab. (momsdemandaction.org)
even though didnt city trained GPD comit homicide on Marcus Smith within a block of a venue selling booze and with music just because he asked for help? (rhinotimes.com)
While partitions appear to be effective in reducing homicides (based on studies of their use in Baltimore, New York City, and Winnipeg), they have not been widely accepted by the industry. (cdc.gov)

The numbers reflect six fewer homicides than the same period in 2013, and 55 fewer homicides since the same time in 2012. (huffpost.com)

While the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and others have reported since the 1990s that the taxicab industry has a very high occurrence of workplace homicide, some are still surprised to learn that taxicab drivers face a greater risk for injury and homicide on the job than those working in law enforcement and security. (cdc.gov)
It has been estimated that about 20% of all violent crime occurs in the workplace and that 75% of workplace homicides involve firearms. (cdc.gov)
Additionally, almost 50% of all workplace homicides occurred in southern states. (cdc.gov)

The public quickly took notice of Homicide Watch-page views climbed from 500 a month to 300,000 in two years. (chicagoreader.com)
Professor Wesley Skogan has studied police in Chicago for over 30 years and says the department's 'traditional culture' needs a change. (scrippsnews.com)
That would be the highest number of homicides in Chicago in nearly 20 years. (thetruthaboutguns.com)
These statistics come after Chicago experienced one of its most violent Fourth of July weekends in recent years with at least 102 people shot during the week of the holiday. (essence.com)
I know this feeling all too well from when my son Terrell was ripped from my life as he was gunned down on the grounds of a church in Chicago ten years ago. (momsdemandaction.org)

Then in 2017, youth homicides boomeranged back to lower, pre-2015 levels. (northwestern.edu)
Then, when the budget was reinstated in 2017, you can see the big decline in homicides. (northwestern.edu)

Police initially said it was a death investigation, but later reclassified her death as a homicide. (foxnews.com)
It must be emphasized that the classification of homicide for the purposes of death investigation is a neutral term and neither indicates nor implies criminal intent, which remains within the province of legal processes. (hiphopwired.com)
The investigation into Montenegro fueled concerns from legal experts about whether homicide cases the detective investigated could be jeopardized by the allegations against him. (dallasnews.com)

Intent to cause death is a common element, but is not required for classification as a homicide. (hiphopwired.com)

3. Malphurs JE, Cohen D. A statewide case-control study of spousal homicide-suicide in older persons. (psychiatrist.com)

Our paper argued that the causal mechanism was likely an ACLU consent decree with the Chicago Police Department, which led to a sharp decline in stop and frisks-and, we believe, a consequent sharp increase in homicides (and other shooting crimes). (reason.com)
That (ultimately inconclusive) report specifically stated that "earlier in 2015, state funding for Cure Violence, a violence prevention organization operating in Chicago, was suspended, although the timing of that funding reduction does not seem to fit well as a candidate explanation for the increase in gun violence since the latter occurred at the end of 2015. (reason.com)
Communities are dealing with an increase in homicides. (kcbx.org)
the study found that this process used as a source of information to determine mental illness may not actually reflect an increase in homicide rates due to the prevalence of mental disorder. (medscape.com)
In New Orleans, researchers predicted that a 10% increase in the density of outlets selling alcohol for off-premise consumption would increase the homicide rate by 2.4% (10). (cdc.gov)

Per capita, Baltimore, New Orleans, St. Louis, and several other statistically 'large cities' have higher homicide rates than Chicago. (scrippsnews.com)
The DCNF collected homicide data from Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Indianapolis, some of the only cities in which such data is readily available. (dailycaller.com)

Also, that 650 number is still more total homicides than Los Angeles and New York combined. (scrippsnews.com)

ABC News contributor John Cohen, a law enforcement and homeland security expert whose roles have included counterterrorism coordinator for the Department of Homeland Security, described the violence in Chicago as 'spiraling out of control. (go.com)
What can be done to reduce the violence in Chicago? (foxnews.com)
About 60 [academic] papers show that a very common result of greater inequality is more violence, usually measured by homicide rates," says Richard Wilkinson, author of The Spirit Level and co-founder of the Equality Trust. (nakedcapitalism.com)
My heart goes out to the hundreds of families who will never be whole again because of Chicago violence. (momsdemandaction.org)

Elderly homicide in Chicago: a research note. (psychiatrist.com)
Homicide against or the elderly in Chicago 1965-2000. (bvsalud.org)

This list includes notable homicides committed in the U.S. state of California that have a Wikipedia article on the killing, the killer, or the victim. (wikipedia.org)

However, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown says there just needs to be tougher federal laws aimed at gun trafficking. (kcbx.org)

Last month was the deadliest September in Chicago since 1993, though police officials emphasized Thursday that other violent crime dropped from their summer levels. (gopusa.com)

In 2009, the annual homicide rate among this population was 51 per 100,000 people (average monthly rate of 4.3 per 100,000 people). (northwestern.edu)
Why is the homicide rate going up so quickly? (kcbx.org)

This is a list of notable homicides in California. (wikipedia.org)

Professor Pfaff also mentions that our regression equations simply include (in one model) homicides rates in other cities, without developing difference-in-difference variables or synthetic controls. (reason.com)
The population of the ages between 18 and 24 are experiencing record high unemployment rates as well as reporting really high instances of mental health and substance abuse," said Kimberly Smith of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. (cbsnews.com)
After months of high homicide rates, Chicago might be on the mend. (hiphopwired.com)
Inequality predicts homicide rates "better than any other variable", says Martin Daly, professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at McMaster University in Ontario and author of Killing the Competition: Economic Inequality and Homicide . (nakedcapitalism.com)

1 , 2 , 5-9 Although risk factors of homicide in demented patients remain unknown, dysexecutive syndrome could be a cause. (psychiatrist.com)

McCarthy and Mayor Rahm Emanuel both staunchly opposed concealed carry in Chicago, prompting the top cop to point out t he department made the first arrest in Illinois of a concealed carry permit holder after the man allegedly threatened to shoot someone in a rent money dispute. (huffpost.com)
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel looks to Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson for answers after a bloody Labor Day weekend. (spacecoastdaily.com)

Chicago police outline more mental health support for officers and a focus on closing homicide cases and getting guns off the street. (cbsnews.com)

Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson told the AP recently that officers have become more careful, partly because they're concerned about viral videos. (go.com)

All of these variables were based on monthly data, since we were attempting to explain homicide data reported on monthly basis. (reason.com)
The study applied a novel approach to examine homicide count data from the National Violent Death Reporting System. (northwestern.edu)
One project involves analyzing taxicab homicide data obtained from newspaper articles on over 700 homicides occurring between 1992 and 2006. (cdc.gov)

On Tuesday, May 23, Smith was taken into custody without incident in Chicago, Illinois with the help of the United States Marshals Service Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force. (newsbreak.com)

New York had tallied 299 homicides through Monday, while L.A. had logged 270 by Sept. 3, according to records maintained by the cities. (suntimes.com)
That is an alarming admission about the ability to solve homicides and the story included a table by which the crime states from certain cities could be found. (libertyparkpress.com)
Homicides Have Skyrocketed In These Six Democratic Cities. (dailycaller.com)

In a news report not being seen in mainstream media, ZeroHedge points out that, for Chicagoans under the age of 40, you are more likely to die by homicide than from COVID-19. (mercola.com)

An urban community-based cancer prevention screening and health education intervention in Chicago. (cdc.gov)

Homicide occurs when a person's death results from a volitional act committed by another person to cause fear, harm, or death," he said in a statement. (hiphopwired.com)

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy called the numbers disappointing. (securitymagazine.com)

Harold Pollack, co-director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab , agrees. (nakedcapitalism.com)

He also has ties to Milwaukee and Chicago. (fox6now.com)

Will it also help bring a new kind of crime journalism to Chicago? (chicagoreader.com)
These killings may seem unrelated - but they are only a few recent examples of the kind of crime that demonstrates a surprising link between homicide and inequality. (nakedcapitalism.com)

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