Democrats are pushing again on Trump administration claims Chicago is a “battle zone” even because the proof reveals greater than 32,000 folks have been shot within the Windy Metropolis through the previous decade alone.
Breitbart Information pulled knowledge from the Chicago Solar-Instances, CNN, and the Chicago Police Division (CPD), to tally the general numbers of capturing victims for every year, beginning in 2016 and going by way of October 4, 2025.
The figures beneath embrace all capturing victims in our time frame, deadly and non-fatal mixed:
- 2016 – 4,349 (CNN)
- 2017 – 3,457 (CNN)
- 2018 – 2,876 (Solar-Instances)
- 2019 – 2,639 (Solar-Instances)
- 2020 – 4,090 (Solar-Instances)
- 2021 – 4,385 (CPD)
- 2022 – 3,485 (CPD)
- 2023 – 2,876 (CPD)
- 2024 – 2,758 (CPD)
- 2025 YTD – Over 1,500
Including the above figures collectively reveals the entire variety of capturing victims to be at the very least 32,415.
Breitbart Information reported at the very least 30 folks had been shot through the previous weekend alone, 5 of them fatally.
In line with the Chicago Tribune, over 330 folks have been murdered in Chicago to this point in 2025.
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Regardless of the violent decade of capturing victims and present tally of murders, The Hill quoted Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) claiming it’s the Trump administration that “[wants] to create the battle zone” to justify sending in additional troops.
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