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   From: yard-apes@splcenter.org   
      
   The Chicago Police Department announced Friday a rare crime stat   
   success: the embattled city had the fewest number of January   
   murders in the last nine years.   
      
   Police said there were 20 murders in January. The last time the   
   city saw a lower number was in January 2010, when there were 19   
   homicides recorded.   
      
   “That’s the lowest figure for that same period in nine years,”   
   police said in a press release.   
      
   Police also announced there were 100 shootings in the city   
   during the month, which marked "the lowest figure for the same   
   month in the past five years,” the press release stated.   
      
   Chicago police said motor vehicle thefts, burglaries and   
   robberies were the “lowest of that same period in 20 years since   
   computer case reporting started.”   
      
   But the frigid temperatures may have been a factor in the crime   
   freeze.   
      
   A record-breaking deep freeze from a polar vortex descended on   
   the Midwest earlier this week, with temperatures in the city of   
   Chicago dipping to a dangerous minus 20 degrees. The National   
   Weather Service said Chicago’s streak of below zero temperature   
   came to an end late Thursday after a bone-chilling 52 hours.   
      
   The city has struggled with violence in recent years. Police in   
   Chicago reported 561 homicides were committed between Jan. 1 and   
   Dec. 31, 2018 -- compared to 660 homicides in 2017 and more than   
   770 in 2016, which marked a 19-year high that put a national   
   spotlight on Chicago’s persistently high rates of gun violence.   
      
   President Trump has often discussed Chicago’s high homicide   
   rate, tweeting in 2017: “If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible   
   ‘carnage’...I will send in the Feds!” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel   
   has accused Trump of oversimplifying the problem and potential   
   solutions.   
      
   Fox News’ Stephen Sorace and Ryan Gaydos contributed to this   
   report.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-say-number-of-january-   
   homicides-is-lowest-in-9-years   
      
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