From a Friend of McHenry County Blog:

From Friday’s New York Times:

Detroit is on track to record the fewest murders since 1966. In Philadelphia, where there were more murders in 2021 than in any year on record, the number of homicides this year has fallen more than 20 percent from last year….  The data covers about 80 percent of the U.S. population….  Homicides are down by 13 percent in Chicago and by 11 percent in New York, where shootings are down by 25 percent — two cities that former President Donald J. Trump called “crime dens” in a campaign speech this year….   Baltimore is on track to report the fewest murders in nearly a decade, and Philadelphia to post a homicide count more than 25 percent below its 2021 record of 562…. 

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From Axios.com

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From the Chicago Tribune Friday:

The rate of violent crime on CTA trains continued to drop in 2023, years after it spiked when the pandemic emptied trains of many riders.  But the violent crime rate still remained above pre-pandemic levels….  From January through November, there were about 4.7 violent crimes on the “L” for every million rides, down from 6.2 crimes per million rides during a similar period the year before, the Tribune analysis shows. But in the five years before the pandemic, the rate of violent crimes never topped 2.5 per million rides.

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Think about that last statistic. 

If you ride the CTA, you have less than a 1 in 200,000 chance of being the victim of a violent crime, up from 1 in 400,000 a few years ago.

To put it another way, if you work full time in Chicago and ride the El every day to and from work (that’s 500 times a year), that’s one violent crime for every 400 years of riding the El.