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While gun violence has steadily declined all across America over the last four years, Chicago has the second-largest drop among the 10 largest cities and will likely end this year with the fewest number of homicides since 1965. Since 2021, we have cut in half the number of homicides from around 800 to 400 . Over the same period, the total number of shootings has dropped from more than 4,400 to under 2,000.

The decline in gun violence in our city is a great story we can all celebrate, but a related and important story is that arrests are also down compared to the previous decade. In fact, the annual number of arrests dropped from more than 90,000 in 2019 to about 53,000 today.

The logical conclusion to draw from these two trends is that many

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