{"id":115675,"date":"2021-02-02T12:06:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T17:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115675"},"modified":"2021-02-02T12:12:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T17:12:03","slug":"chicago-records-largest-number-of-january-homicides-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-records-largest-number-of-january-homicides-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Records Largest Number Of January Homicides In Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-records-largest-number-of-january-homicides-in-four-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115675&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: left\">Changing weather has done little to stem the spike in murders in Chicago; despite near-freezing temperatures and at least one significant snowfall, the city clocked 54 homicides in January of 2021, the most in four years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/chicago-sees-51-homicides-in-january-highest-in-4-years\/2426764\/\">NBC Chicago reports<\/a> that the Chicago Police Department announced Monday that there had been 51 homicides. The Chicago Sun-Times, which keeps unofficial homicide records, and includes homicides on the city\u2019s freeways and \u201ckillings committed in self defense,\u201d added three additional murders to the tally.<\/p>\n<p>The number is a significant uptick from 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest tally is a sharp increase from the 35 slayings recorded in the same month last year,\u201d NBC Chicago noted. \u201cThis January was the deadliest in Chicago since 2017, when 51 murders were recorded across the city, according to police statistics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 and early 2017, Chicago was in the midst of what appeared to be a heated gang war, and its homicide numbers \u2014 particularly its gun-related homicide numbers \u2014 were far outpacing those in other cities.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, \u00a02016 was the deadliest year in Chicago in two decades, and 2021 appears to be on pace to match that benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in homicides, as the Daily Wire has previously noted, is just one aspect of a larger trend. Crime is up in Chicago around 2%, across the board.<\/p>\n<p id=\"M0Glx3\">\u201cJanuary also saw an increase in shooting incidents compared to the same month last year, police said. Chicago recorded 201 shootings through the end of the month, while January 2020 saw 137 shootings,\u201dNBC Chicago noted. \u201cOver 240 people were shot in Chicago in January, while 158 shooting victims were reported during the same month last year, police said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"IrAZn1\">Carjackings are also up significantly, with nearly 200 in January alone, and carjackings are also on pace to set a record, albeit one set two decades ago, according to Chicago police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chicago Police Department has released new statistics showing crimes such as robbery and burglary went down last year, however, carjackings could be on pace to surpass a recent 19-year record,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/chicago-crime-skyrocketing-carjackings-police\/2426516\/\">separate NBC Chicago report said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dMore than 1,400 carjackings were reported across Chicago in all of 2020, which is more than double 2019&#8217;s number and the highest since 2001. The city is on pace to see 1,800 carjackings this year, according to police,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n<p>CPD recently announced that it would be adding dozens of officers to a carjacking task force in an effort to curb the problem.<\/p>\n<p>This time, unlike in 2016, Chicago is not alone in experiencing an uptick in violence. In 2020, major cities across the United States suffered major crime waves, and that trend is not dying out in the first weeks of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>New York City is also on pace to break homicide records, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9155327\/Murders-New-York-rose-125-TEN-DAYS-2021-compared-period-2020.html\">according to the Daily Mail<\/a>,\u00a0citing New York Police Department statistics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cMurders in New York rocketed by 125 per cent in the first 10 days of 2021 with a 20-year-old man shot dead just one hour after the ball dropped in Times Square,\u201d the Daily Mail reported. \u201cNine people died between January 1 and 10 this year, compared to four in the same period last new, new figures have shown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles, California, is also suffering through a homicide spike, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/lapd-gun-violence-2021-crime-in-la-violent-south\/9757544\">according to local media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing weather has done little to stem the spike in murders in Chicago; despite near-freezing temperatures and at least one significant snowfall, the city clocked 54 homicides in January of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892459,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4387,4824,3780,4818,4821,3918],"class_list":["post-115675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chicago","tag-homicides","tag-january","tag-largest","tag-number","tag-records"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}