Chicago’s murder total last year surged to levels not seen in a quarter-century, but embattled police Supt. David Brown has frequently noted a positive data point amid the spike in violence: His department “cleared” more murder cases in 2021 than in any other year in nearly two decades.
’s detectives "cleared over 400 homicides in 2021," Brown said in January, one of several times he’s mentioned the figure in public remarks. "That’s the most cleared in 19 years."
Half of those cases — 199 — were closed "exceptionally," meaning no one was charged. Under departmental policy, detectives are allowed to clear a case when the suspect is dead, prosecutors refuse to make a charge or police believe they know who did it but don’t make an arrest.Chicago crime victims are traveling to Springfield Wednesday to demand more public safety outside of the state capitol.
Both residents and police officers in violence-plagued communities want to see killers taken off the streets, and padded clearance stats or stalled court cases do little to build confidence in the community or boost police morale, said Christopher Herrmann, a researcher at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York who has studied clearance data.
"The detective told me once that they would just have to wait for the gun to be used in another shooting so they could connect it," Collier said. No one was charged in any of those old murders, CPD records show: in 30 of the cases, prosecutors declined to file charges against suspects identified by police, and in the rest, the alleged killer had already died.
In public statements and off-the-record complaints, police and Mayor Lori Lightfoot have claimed prosecutors are turning down solid cases brought to them by detectives. Asked about why there were so many cases closed without an arrest during a year when Chicago saw near-record numbers of homicides, spokesman Don Terry said that department tabulates case clearances according to FBI guidelines.
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