CHICAGO — After a two-year spike during the pandemic and national outrage over police accountability, Chicago has begun to see a decline in homicides, as the Chicago Police Department works to correct crime trends to levels before the coronavirus and turmoil over the killing of George Floyd took hold.
“Our plans in 2020 were disrupted by civil unrest and the gun violence crisis as well as the global pandemic,” Chicago police Superintendent David Brown told the Tribune. “So we obviously had to address what was happening.”
Chicago had more than 800 homicides in 2021, one of the deadliest years in the last quarter-century. It was a year when the city joined national trends after Floyd’s killing by police in Minneapolis.
