Chicago residents reported 28,443 violent crimes during 2024. The attacks and threats had risen, as strict attacks reached the highest level in 20 years.
Chicago residents suffered 28,443 violent crimes during 2024, with severe attacks that rise to the highest levels in two decades.
The city's residents reported 1614 violent crimes less than 2023 in cases of murder, theft and criminal sexual assault. Violent crimes were heading up during the past decade.
The arrests were made in about 1 out of 7 violent crimes. The arrest rate was heading for 20 years.
While Chicago's reputation of violence, especially murders, has won it well, it is not the nation The murder capital Some claimed. In 2024, the city witnessed that murders drop to an average of nearly 20 years.
The strict attacks reached the highest level in 2024 at 8,039. The most feasible militant batteries increased by 3.1 % last year, the largest increase in the violent crime category, bringing the total 9132. The black population was 61 % of the tight battery victims.
According to the Chicago Police Department, strict batteries involve all crimes that the victim strikes seriously through physical communication or a fatal weapon. A strict attack can be merely a threat to violence.
The city's arrest rate of strict batteries has risen to its highest level since before the Covid-19s, with 1 in 5, which led to arrest.
During the past year, the stretchy batteries reached their climax in the middle of the night and reached their lowest levels at 7 am, depending on the time when the victim was attacked, the chances of hunting the perpetrator could drop further.
The England neighborhood of South Side in Chicago told the most strict batteries with 594 cases last year. The mayor Brandon Johnson neighborhood came in Austin in second place.
In general, strict 4 -in -5 batteries that were reported during the year 2024 occurred on the western and southern sides of the city.
