41) Successful Steps
A strategy shift means fewer teens get sent to juvenile jail.
Published:
October, 2004
42) Transfers Timeline
For more than two decades, lawmakers have supported a range of amendments to the state laws that transfer teens to adult court.
Published:
October, 2004
43) Arbitrary Lines
By: Sarah Karp and Mick Dumke
See More Stories by this author.The movement to treat teens as adults when they commit crimes loses steam.
Published:
October, 2004
44) Risk-Ridden Homes
High-risk lead ZIP codes in the six-county Chicago metropolitan area mostly include suburbs that have significant Latino and black populations and low median household incomes. This trend holds true for Chicago; though the whole city is considered high-risk, its most-affected areas are black and Latino neighborhoods on the West and South sides.
Published:
September, 2004
45) Abatement vs. Mitigation
Abatement vs. Mitigation
Published:
September, 2004
46) Lack of Force
By: Brian J. Rogal and Mary C. Johns
See More Stories by this author.The Chicago Housing Authority pays the Chicago Police Department $12 million a year for extra police services, but public housing residents say that they're not getting their money's worth.
Published:
July, 2004
47) Death Toll
Since 1999, the year before the Chicago Housing Authority launched its Plan for Transformation, the number of occupied units in the CHA has declined 37 percent, and serious crimes have fallen nearly 48 percent overall. However, in that time, the number of people shot and killed at CHA developments has risen by 14 percent. The rate of firearm deaths per 1,000 occupied units in the CHA has nearly doubled, from 1.3 in 1999 to 2.3 in 2003.
Published:
July, 2004
48) Dangerous Destinations
More than 2,500 people were killed in Chicago from 1999 through 2002. Many of those murders occurred on the South and West sides where the Chicago Housing Authority has most often relocated its former residents. Among them are South Shore, Roseland and Englewood---three neighborhoods that totaled 55 murders in 1998 and 75 in 2003, a 36 percent increase. Citywide, homicides dropped 15 percent during that time.
Published:
July, 2004
49) Murder Capitol
The murder rate in Chicago, which led all U.S. cities in homicides in both 2001 and 2003, has declined slightly during the last four years. The city’s rate remains nearly three times the rate in New York but lower than the rate in other large cities in the Midwest. Of cities with a population of 100,000 or more, Gary, Ind., had the highest murder rate in the country, while Madison, Wis., was among those with the lowest rates.
Published:
July, 2004
50) Moving at Their Own Risk
By: Brian J. Rogal and Beauty Turner
See More Stories by this author.The redevelopment of public housing creates new dangers.
Published:
July, 2004
51) Risk Factors
By: Sarah Karp
See More Stories by this author.A patron of a bowling alley is so disturbed when he sees a boy getting hit and kicked by a man that he calls police. Staff members at a public health clinic are alarmed after overhearing a girl’s father order her, in Spanish, to tell the doctor that her black eyes were the result of falling down the stairs.
Published:
June, 2004
52) Cut Short
By: Sarah Karp
See More Stories by this author.DCFS says it shouldn’t be held responsible for
children who die under its watch, but its own inspector general wonders if these lives had to be cut short.
Published:
June, 2004
55) Armed and Dangerous
By: Rupa Shenoy
See More Stories by this author.Faced with more attacks against them, police are killing increasing numbers of Chicagoans.
Published:
January, 2004
56) Dreams Deferred by Drug Use
By: Chloé Mister and Cyril Mychalejko
See More Stories by this author.Even with the help of supportive programs, the journey of drug recovery often includes setbacks and detours through the criminal justice system.
Published:
July, 2002
59) West Side Residents Battle Drug War Realities
By: Alden K. Loury
See More Stories by this author.For most, the stories of drug trafficking are documented in 30- and 60-second stories on the evening news. But for others, like Allie Pack, the drama unfolds 24 hours a day in front of her Humboldt Park home.
Published:
May, 2002