JUST IN: Thirty members of the Chicago City Council invoked a rarely used provision of state law to call a special meeting to pressure city officials to step up their efforts to reduce violent crime this summer.
Members of the City Council last demanded that Brown brief them on his plans to address summer violence just before the Fourth of July holiday in 2021. That meeting was contentious, with Brown accusing the City Council of reducing the time he had to strategize with his top commanders on how best to stop violence.
Lightfoot has repeatedly accused members of the City Council who have called special meetings of “grandstanding.” Through the end of April, 178 people have been killed in Chicago in 2022, according to Chicago Police Department data. That marks a 7% decline over the same time last year. However, it is still higher than in 2020 and 2019, according to police data.
The number of shootings is also down approximately 14% through April, as compared with the same period in 2021. However, the pace of shootings in 2022 is still higher than in 2020 and 2019, according to police data. In April, there were 49 homicides — the fewest of any April since 2018 — and 207 shootings in Chicago, according to police data.
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