NOVEMBER MURDER TOLL DOUBLES OVER LAST YEAR
November 2016 saw more than twice as many murder victims than during the same time period a year earlier, according to Chicago Police.
Seventy- seven people were killed in Chicago last month, compared with 38 homicide victims in November 2015.
Last month’s murder total is the highest seen in a Chicago November since 1994, when the city recorded 78 victims. The high- water mark for November murders in Chicago was set in 1974, when 117 people were killed, according to police records.
November 2016 saw the third most murders of any month in 2016.
October 2016 saw one more murder, with 78 victims. The highest death toll of the year so far was in August, when more than 90 people were killed in the city.
November closed with a total of 316 shooting incidents and 389 shooting victims, according to police, who claim the increase in violence is driven by five police districts on the South and West sides.
November also saw the city pass the grim milestone of 700 homicides this year, the first time that mark was reached since 1998. Through the end of November, the year had recorded 714 homicides, according to Chicago Sun- Times records.
Through Nov. 30, the city has had a total of 4,048 shooting victims in 3,315 shooting incidents in 2016, according to police.
“The levels of violence we have seen this year in some of our communities is absolutely unacceptable,” police Supt. Eddie Johnson said in a statement.
Contributing: Sam Charles