Shooters, who have fired almost 11,000 gunshots in 30 Black Chicago neighborhoods since 2018, have rarely been arrested, according to a report that examined clearance rates statistics in non-fatal shootings recorded by the Chicago Police Department.
The report, published in the Chicago Sun-Times, said the overall clearance rate for shootings in Chicago is 6 percent. The report said last year alone, there were about 2,300 non-fatal shootings, but only 141 people in those cases were arrested.
The report said more than 19,000 people were wounded in shootings in Chicago since 2018. The Chicago Police Department has made arrests in 1,200 of those cases…