Over A Third Of Chicago’s Fatal Shooting Cases Are Closed Without Being Resolved – Block Club Chicago

Researchers say that exceptional clearances are supposed to be used sparingly, but that doesn’t seem to be the case in Chicago. Overall, researchers have estimated that police departments clear 3 to 5 percent of cases through the exceptional means category; for homicide cases, that number is 6 percent. In Chicago, between 2010 and 2024, police deemed 13 percent of all homicides as “exceptional.”