Chicago sees fewer homicides in 2011
With only a few days left in the year, Chicago is on track to log fewer homicides in 2011 than in the previous year.
But the news isn't good for all areas of the city, and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says one death is one too many.
Citywide, the number of homicides is down. The city saw 419 through Tuesday, compared to 437 through all of 2010. The city's Englewood neighborhood, however, logged 56 killings through Tuesday — a 40 percent increase over the same period last year.
McCarthy tells the Chicago Sun-Times that he isn't happy with those numbers, although he believes the strategies he's put in place since coming to Chicago in May are beginning to work. McCarthy has shifted about 1,000 officers to the patrol division.
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