The Latest Breaking News from David Brown

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.

Over the last three years, at least five people have been killed and 25 have been shot in the 12-hour stretch between late New Year’s Eve and early New Year’s Day, according to police records.

CHICAGO — Two of four students shot outside Benito Juarez Community Academy high school on the city’s Southwest Side Friday afternoon have died, according to officials.

The Chicago Police Department continues to make progress in a court-ordered revamp, but longstanding problems with manpower continue to hold it back.

The recommendation from Police Supt. David Brown comes four years after the officer, James Hunt, was suspended for yelling, “I kill motherf------,” an apparent reference to a 17-year-old boy Hunt fatally shot while on duty.

The unidentified 58-year-old female officer was found Thursday morning in the 5800 block of North Northwest Highway.

CHICAGO — An Indiana man who admitted to straw-purchasing the handgun later used to kill Chicago police Officer Ella French and critically wound her partner during a traffic stop last year was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in prison.

Three employees call for Georgia’s state health insurance to cover gender-confirming healthcare and other procedures.

Police Supt. Brown said investigators believe the four suspects may be responsible for more than 50 recent armed robberies but did not specify why, explaining that “we’ve got to put together the cases to prove that these were the offenders.”