Gun violence that’s accounted for more than 1,400 slayings in Chicago during the past two years.
Homicides are down 22%, and shooting incidents have decreased by 28% through the first two months of 2018. Chicago recorded 650 homicides in 2017 and 762 homicides in 2016 the vast majority and predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods on the city’s South and West sides 399 shooting incidents and 101 slayings at the same point last year.