(The Center Square) – Illinois state Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, studies Chicago’s somewhat mixed-bag crime trend data with little question about what he feels needs to come next in the ongoing fight for peace and greater public safety.
New data shows over the last year even as homicides were at a 10-year low, arrests in those cases also fell from 42% to 27%, or just 133 apprehensions in 498 investigations.
“We got to be very clear about the fact that public safety is foundational,” Buckner told The Center Square. “If people don’t feel safe in their homes, on the train, walking their kids to school, nothing else that we do as government really matters. This data deserves to be looked at fully to figure out what we’re doing right so we can do more of it and what we’re doing wrong so we can do less. I think we have the opportunity to move beyond reaction and for systemic change.”…