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Lightfoot claims Chicago homicides, shootings are down. That’s not entirely true.

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Lightfoot has said federal help would be necessary to help curb the violence. CPD estimates it took 172 guns off the street this weekend, and was on track to recover 12,000 by the end of the year. She also said the closure of criminal courts being “relatively inactive” and closed for in-person jury trials “makes no sense,” because it has left too many accused offenders out on pretrial release. 

Last week, Chief Judge Timothy Evans announced he’d formed a committee to determine how to safely speed up the reopening of criminal courts to in-person proceedings. “Hearings, bench trials, guilty pleas, findings of innocence and dismissal of cases have continued” for the past 15 months, Evans’ office pointed out.

When you compare January through June of 2020 and 2021, certain crimes—like criminal sexual assault, robbery and aggravated battery—are down. But the total number of homicides, shootings and robberies are outpacing last year, as are carjackings and the number of shootings with multiple victims.

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