DOWNTOWN — Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Department Supt. Larry Snelling are touting a decline in violent crime this year in Chicago, a shift that comes as cities across the country have seen a reduction in homicides and other crimes since a post-pandemic spike.
Flanked by fellow mayors and police chiefs Monday morning at a Chicago meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors that focused on public safety, Johnson and Snelling broadly argued that city and department initiatives — such as a robbery task force introduced last year — have contributed to the city reporting fewer crimes in most categories so
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