Where democrats rule-----1 in 3 Chicago violent crimes is a robbery, up 21% in a year

Just looking at the month of June showed just how bad the arrest rate is. There were 714 robberies, spread across the city, but only 16 arrests.

• Residents reported 29,522 violent crimes through June. But as cases of violent crime hit their highest level in the past five years, the arrest rate for these felonies declined to 10.8%, the lowest level in the past five years.
• Robberies increased 21.4% – the most of any violent crime in Chicago during the past 12 months. Coordinated robbery sprees in some of the city’s traditionally safest neighborhood helped drive that number.
• Just looking at the month of June showed just how bad the arrest rate is. There were 714 robberies, spread across the city, but only 16 arrests.
• During the previous 12 months, Hispanic Chicagoans were 2.5 times more likely to be victims of a robbery compared to white Chicagoans. 
• Black Chicagoans were twice as likely to be targeted...