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Homicide clearance rate in the USA has been decreasing from 93% in 1962 to 54% in 2020. [2] Some U.S. police forces have been criticized for overuse of "exceptional clearance", which is intended to classify as "cleared" cases where probable cause to arrest a suspect exists, but police are unable to do so for reasons outside their control (such as death or incarceration in a foreign country).
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
The Cook County Sheriff's Police Department has over 500 state certified law enforcement officers charged with patrolling unincorporated areas of Cook County as well as assisting suburban police departments with police operations including, but not limited to, detective and crime scene investigator (CSI) services, narcotics interdiction, bomb detection and disposal, vice operations, street ...
Chicago police, along with the Department of Justice, will outline what they plan to do to increase the percentage of murders solved. Chicago police aim to improve homicide clearance rate; only 17 ...
Long before Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed a black teenager, sparking a public outcry and now a Justice Department probe into the city’s troubled police department, he had established a track record as one of Chicago’s most complained-about cops. Since 2001, civilians have lodged 20 complaints against Van Dyke. None ...
A Proud Tradition: A Pictorial History of the Chicago Police Department. Chicago: Chicago Police Department. Burke, Edward M., and O'Gorman, Thomas J. (2006). End of Watch: Chicago Police Killed in the Line of Duty, 1853–2006. Chicago: Chicago's Books Press. Conroy, John (2000). Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture ...
Convicted of killing two Chicago police officers: Chicago Tylenol murders: Chicago: 1982: 7: Poisoning deaths resulting from placing potassium cyanide in Tylenol capsules in Chicago metropolitan area [17] Charles Walker: St. Clair County: 1983-06-18: 2: Murdered a young couple after robbing them, later executed [18] [19] Dardeen family ...
Hodgdon, who's part of a group of 120 volunteers caring for migrants sleeping in police stations across Chicago, blasted city officials for relying so much on everyday citizens.