CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago alderwoman announced a plan to develop a City Council task force focused on the abnormal rate of violence against Black women in Chicago – after CBS 2 Investigators exposed the issue in a series spanning months.
The data show Black women suffer disproportionately from crime here. Dorothy Tucker and the CBS 2 Investigators team have been exposing the depths of this issue in the city for months now.
Last year, Tucker shared stories from the women behind the startling statistics exposed by the CBS Investigators.
“It’s not fair. To have to navigate through life knowing that you’ll potentially become a victim of a crime primarily because of your race and your gender combined… it’s not fair,” Tonia Thomas, a 27-year-old resident of Chicago’s West Side, said in June.
Black women account for 25 percent to 30 percent of Chicago’s crime victims – but make up just 16 percent of the city’s population, according to 2022 crime data.