More than75 percent of murders in 2020were committed with a firearm, reaching a new high point, and cities that report data on shooting incidents, like New York, saw significant increases in this form of violence as well. The remarkable surge in gun carrying in 2020 is happening during an economic crisis that is of a scale we havent seen since the Great Depression. This dataset reflects reported incidents of crime that have occurred in the City of Chicago over the past year, minus the most recent seven days of data. Were adding workers. PISTOL Assoc. Any attempt to link de-policing to crime in 2020 would also fail to explain the divergence between trends in violent crime (which rose) and property crime (which did not). It seems there are headlines almost every day about how crime has surged in the United States. Fully one in four 18- to 24-year-olds said they seriously considered suicide the past 30 days. At the state and national policy level, social programs designed to cut poverty can be part of this solution, as they have been proven to reduce crime and incarceration. The number of law enforcement officers has since grown, reaching 696,644 in 2020. The third challenge is resources. When gun carrying increases, gun violence increases shortly thereafter (and vice versa). Submit a letter, of no more than 400 words, to the editor here or email letters@chicagotribune.com. A social-policy response at the scale needed here needs a great deal more city, state and federal government help. Illinois Crime Rates 1960 to 2019 Illinois Crime Rates 1960 - 2019 The data in the crime reports is derived from the annual Uniform Crime Reports issued by the FBI until 2020, at which time the FBI stopped releasing the annual reports in favor of its own electronic search engine. Crime Reports issued by the FBI until 2020, at which time the FBI