Chicago police’s homicide clearance rate dips in 2020 after improvement in recent years – Chicago Tribune*

But the reversal is also happening at an unprecedented moment, with violence spiking across the country in the wake of both the pandemic and national protests over policing. Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan on Monday noted that the total number of murders solved so far this year, 329, is the most in one year since 2005.

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