Editorial: Forget the homicide rankings. Bring on the solutions
by Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune
Oct 12, 2021
4 minutes
Chicago is hardly alone in its gun-related misery. The FBI released its latest annual Uniform Crime Reporting statistics on Sept. 27. It showed a 29.4% nationwide rise in homicides from a year earlier to 21,570 killings in 2020 — the largest single-year jump since the bureau began recording crime statistics six decades ago.
The surge in killings drove an overall 5% increase in violent crime last year, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report. That increase of 4,901 over the previous year was the largest annual increase since the FBI began keeping records.
So there is the national problem and, in Chicago, our severe localized
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