Chicago saw its deadliest year in two decades in 2016, closing the year with 762 homicides surpassing the number in New York and Los Angeles combined and over 4,000 shooting victims.
Meanwhile, according to an analysis from the Chicago Sun-Times, the number of arrests went down by 28 percent from last year reaching its lowest rate since 2001 and half that of 2010. During the first three months of 2016, police recorded just 20,908 investigative stops. During the same period in 2015, that number was 157,346 showing a decrease by 86 percent from one year to the next.
That pattern continued throughout the year. In August of 2015, the police stopped 49,257 people. This past August, that number was 8,859 reflecting an 82 percent decrease.
