Shootings, homicides down so far this year compared with 2021, but experts and violence-reduction workers are wary

Extra statistics posted on the town of Chicago knowledge portal additionally confirmed declines within the variety of taking pictures victims, together with in a few of the metropolis’s least protected communities, akin to Austin, Englewood, Better Grand Crossing and North Lawndale. General, the variety of individuals killed in shootings was down 11% and the variety of injured was down 16%.