John Pfaff was quoted in a CNN article about current crime rates in Chicago.
Chicago alone accounted for about one-fifth of the national increase in murders, according to Adam Gelb, director of the Public Safety Performance Project at The Pew Charitable Trusts. And within Chicago, it’s a small number of streets fueling that surge.
“About half of the homicide rise in Chicago took place in five neighborhoods,” said John Pfaff, a professor of Law at Fordham University Law School. “Five neighborhoods in Chicago explain 10% of the national increase in homicide rates.”
