“While murder rates in Los Angeles and New York continue to decline each year, Chicago’s has increased by 62 percent. In The New York Times feature “Chicago’s Murder Problem,” Ford Fessenden and Haeyoun Park investigate the issues from homicide rates to gun violence to gang activity to segregation. They visualize their findings in maps and charts that include demographic and crime data from Social Explorer. There was a time when it looked as if Chicago would follow New York and Los Angeles into a kind of sustained peace. Then progress stalled in 2004, and the city has been through some harrowing years leading up to another alarming spike in homicides this year. Read the full NY Times article here, and dig into crime and arrest data nationwide and in your neighborhood with Social Explorer’s maps and reports. Learn more about our Uniform Crime Report and FBI data here.”