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2024 End-of-Year Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends

2024 End-of-Year Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends

Dec 2024 Gun Violence

Gun violence remains one of the most pressing challenges in America but there are signs of progress.

Webinar: Untapped Levers for Reducing Gun Violence – The Impact of Behavioral Science Programs
Webinar

Webinar: Untapped Levers for Reducing Gun Violence – The Impact of Behavioral Science Programs

Oct 2024

Learn more about our study of Choose to Change® and other behavioral science interventions.

Summer Safety Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends
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Summer Safety Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends

May 2024

These data visualizations present our summer safety analysis on Chicago crime trends.

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Longer-Term Impacts of a Youth Behavioral Science Intervention: Experimental Evidence from Chicago
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Longer-Term Impacts of a Youth Behavioral Science Intervention: Experimental Evidence from Chicago

Jun 2025

This paper details updated results from a study of Choose to Change® (C2C®), a trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy and intensive mentoring program developed by nonprofits Brightpoint and Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (YAP).

Webinar: Overview of the City of Chicago’s Violence Reduction Dashboard
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Webinar: Overview of the City of Chicago’s Violence Reduction Dashboard

Jun 2025

The Crime Lab hosted a webinar that explored the City of Chicago’s Violence Reduction Dashboard—a publicly available tool launched to support efforts to reduce gun violence through transparent, real-time data.

Policing Leadership Academy Advisory and Research Committees
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Policing Leadership Academy Advisory and Research Committees

May 2025

View the members of the PLA’s advisory and research committees.

On My OHM™: A Reset for Real Ones
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On My OHM™: A Reset for Real Ones

May 2025

Kheperah Kearse, Chief Wellness Officer at LIFE Camp, Inc., penned a resource for CVI leaders focused on self-regulation and wellness practices.

Policing Leadership Academy (PLA) Overview
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Policing Leadership Academy (PLA) Overview

May 2025

Read an overview of the Policing Leadership Academy (PLA), a first of-its-kind program launched in May 2023 to train America’s policing leaders working in some of our most violent neighborhoods.

Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
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Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence

Apr 2025

Crime Lab Pritzker Director Jens Ludwig authored a book that argues the lack of progress in reducing gun violence ultimately stems from our having misunderstood the nature of the problem, and that behavioral science gives us a new way to understand – and solve – gun violence in America.

Video: The CVI Leadership Academy’s Third Cohort
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Video: The CVI Leadership Academy’s Third Cohort

Apr 2025

This video features insights from the third cohort of the Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy, a violence reduction program created to enhance the leadership and management skills of senior CVI leaders, enabling them to effectively run community-based organizations.

Video: U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois visits the Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy
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Video: U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois visits the Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy

Mar 2025

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (Illinois) visited with the third cohort of the CVI Leadership Academy to discuss opportunities to invest in CVI at the state and local level.

Video: Reducing Violence and Improving Policing
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Video: Reducing Violence and Improving Policing

Feb 2025

This video offers a glimpse into the Policing Leadership Academy, a violence reduction initiative designed to prevent violent crime, support officers, and improve fairness and effectiveness in policing throughout some of the country’s most violent neighborhoods.

Local Gun Violence Dashboards
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Local Gun Violence Dashboards

Jan 2025

Chicago’s Violence Reduction Dashboard, launched by the Crime Lab in 2021, is featured in a toolkit created by Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund as a part of its Gun Violence Data Fellowship.

Valuing the benefits of reducing firearm violence in the United States
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Valuing the benefits of reducing firearm violence in the United States

Jan 2025

This paper estimates the monetized value of the impact of reducing firearm violence and how that value is distributed across the population.

Video: Creating Safer Communities by Improving Policing
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Video: Creating Safer Communities by Improving Policing

Jan 2025

Griffin Catalyst highlights the Policing Leadership Academy, a new national leadership program that brings together rising police leaders from around the country for five months of advanced, intensive training in management best practices, leveraging data and technology and building community trust—all with the ultimate goal of creating safer, more vibrant communities.

Transforming Criminal Justice Responses to Substance Use: Impacts on Crime, Housing, and Health Outcomes
Academic Paper

Transforming Criminal Justice Responses to Substance Use: Impacts on Crime, Housing, and Health Outcomes

Jan 2025

This paper evaluates the impact of diverting individuals who possess drugs away from arrest and into substance use treatment in Chicago between 2010-2022.

Expanding Access to Addiction Treatment
Academic Paper

Expanding Access to Addiction Treatment

Dec 2024

This paper explores practical strategies to expand access to addiction treatment for persons living with opioid use disorders (OUDs).

Agent-Based Model of Combined Community- and Jail-Based Take-Home Naloxone Distribution
Academic Paper

Agent-Based Model of Combined Community- and Jail-Based Take-Home Naloxone Distribution

Dec 2024

This paper outlines the impact and cost-effectiveness of naloxone distribution, particularly for people facing criminal justice involvement.

2024 End-of-Year Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends
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2024 End-of-Year Analysis: Chicago Crime Trends

Dec 2024

Gun violence remains one of the most pressing challenges in America but there are signs of progress.