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Abstract Citywide homicide totals describe the scale of lethal violence but do not show how it is distributed across communities. This paper examines Chicago homicide victimizations from 2015 through 2025 and compares community-area rates for 2015-2019 and 2020-2024. A dated extraction of Chicago Police Department victim records contains…
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Chicago’s homicide count has declined substantially since 2021. But a citywide total cannot tell us whether that improvement is shared across communities. RSE’s analysis of Chicago Police Department victim records identifies 806…
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About 20% of the world’s oil passes through a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman: the Strait of Hormuz. The current tension between the United States and Iran represents one of the…
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