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Tuesday, November 01, 2016
 
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CHICAGO—After an especially deadly weekend, Chicago’s spiraling violence passed a grim new milestone: more than 600 murders so far this year, up 45% from the same period last year and a level that hasn’t been seen in more than a decade.

Eighteen people were murdered from Friday through Sunday, bringing total homicides this year to 614, according to the official police tally. The last time annual murders topped 600 was in 2003.
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Along with cities such as Baltimore and Houston, Chicago is driving a surge in the national murder rate, which is projected to rise 31.5% this year from 2014.

While both 2003 and this year were chaotic and trying for many in the Chicago neighborhoods affected, community involvement in 2003 was relatively strong, helping police solve 51% of the murders that year.

This year [...] With little help from the community [...] only 21% of the murders have been solved so far. [...] Police officials and those who study policing cite a change in gang structure and a breakdown of trust between police and the community as major factors in fueling violence and harming the department’s ability to rein it in.
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another factor may be the so-called Ferguson effect. After Michael Brown was killed in a confrontation with a policeman in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014, sparking days of protests and accusations of police brutality, some officers began to hesitate in doing their jobs, leading to a jump in crime, [...] another dimension of the Ferguson effect: a pullback by the African-American community from helping police [...] If communities don’t feel they can trust police, they are more likely to “take dispute settlement into their own hands,” snowballing the violence,
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/chicagos-murder-rate-hits-grim-milestone-1477946601
http://www.wsj.com/articles/chicagos-murder-rate-hits-grim-milestone-1477946601

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