Liberals Fail to Protect or Serve Blacks: Over 1/3 of Chicago’s Fatal Shooting Cases are Closed by Police w/o Resolution While DA's Fill the Jails w/Blacks for Possessing Guns to Protect Themselves

According to a Marshall Project analysis of arrests from 2010 to 2022, White men were underrepresented, as were White women. Chicago’s population is roughly a third White, and nationwide surveys suggest gun ownership is far more common among men than women. But over the years of data we reviewed, Chicago police arrested fewer than 1,000 White men — and more than 1,500 Black women. [MORE]

victed in Illinois for felony gun possession don’t go on to commit a violent crime, and the majority of those sentenced to prison for gun possession don’t have past convictions for violence. Instead, people who already committed violent crimes are more likely to do so again.[MORE]

It’s not unusual for CPD to mark unsolved cases as cleared, even though this designation often confuses surviving families. Under the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, law enforcement agencies can use a broad category called “exceptional means” to clear cases when circumstances outside their control prohibit them from arresting, charging, and prosecuting a suspect. 

CPD logs cases as “exceptionally cleared” for two main reasons: when an offender is dead, and when prosecutors declined to file charges against a suspect. Using records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, The Trace analyzed fatal shootings between 2010 and 2024 and learned that of the 2,700 cases Chicago Police declared closed, almost a quarter of them were cleared because prosecutors declined to file charges — not because an investigation was resolved. Almost 36 percent of closed fatal shootings were cleared by exceptional means. [MORE]

According to a study by the Marshal Project, In Chicago and elsewhere, gun possession arrests are rising as shootings go unsolved.