1. Mayor’s Office of Public Safety The Impact of Illegal Guns on Violence in Chicago
Janey
September 20, 2014

2. Chicago’s Prior Gun Laws
McDonald v. Chicago
Ezell v. Chicago
Moore v. Madigan
Ill. Ass'n of Firearms Retailers et. al. v. Chicago

3. Basic Crime Statistics
2013: 415 murders and 1,864 shootings
75% of murder victims are African-American and 19% are Hispanic
Roughly 70% of murder offenders are African- American and 24% are Hispanic
45% of murder victims were between the ages of 17 and 25
More than 50% of murder offenders are between the ages of 17 and 25

4. Chicago homicide rate from 1965-2013

5. Violence is Geographically Concentrated
70% of all homicides occur in 20 Community Areas, where 31% of our population resides

6. Chicago: A National Perspective (2012)
19th highest violent crime rate
13th highest murder rate
Largest gang population: 105, ,000
Largest total gun recoveries
Chicago was ranked 19th in violent crime per capita in 2012 when compared to other US cities with populations over 100,000.
Chicago has similar violent crime levels to Minneapolis and Houston.
Chicago ranked 13th in homicide rates among large cities as of 2012.
Yet Chicago has the highest raw volume of homicides in the country – more than New York City and Los Angeles, both in 2012 and 2013.
Chicago has a disproportionately higher population of gang members. The Chicago Police department believes that the city has the largest known gang population with a total of 105, ,000 gang members
Chicago Police recover more illegal guns than officers in any city in the country.
In the first six months of 2012, the most recent comparative data available, Chicago Police recovered nine times as many illegal guns as officers in New York City, and three times as many as officers in Los Angeles.

7. Chicago Compared to New York and Los Angeles
Highest murder rate
All three cities report between 19 and 22 percent of residents living below the poverty line.
Chicago has more police officers per capita than both New York and Los Angeles.

8. Firearm Recoveries

9. Violence is More Lethal When Guns are Involved

10. Violence is More Lethal When Guns are Involved
United States has one of the lowest rates of “assault” in the world
But the 3rd highest murder rate
Guns = significantly higher homicide rate even though overall violent crime rates are the same

11. Tracing the Guns
Almost all crime guns originally sold at retail gun stores . . .
Straw Purchasing
Corrupt Dealers
Private Sellers
Theft
Lost guns

12. Tracing the Guns Police Recover Gun Original Purchaser ATF MFTG.
DISTRIBUTOR
DEALER
Original Purchaser

13. Sources of Illegal Guns in Chicago

14. Local Sources of Illegal Guns

15. Illegally Trafficked Guns

16. Legislative Solutions - Chicago’s Law
Fingerprinting and background checks for all store employees
Submit a Safety Plan
Participate in state-of-the-art training to prevent gun trafficking
Sell only one handgun a month per buyer
Mandatory, annual audit of the store’s inventory to help detect theft and trafficking
Make store records available to police for inspection at all reasonable times
Videotape the point of sale to discourage traffickers and buyers who use false identification

17. Other Legislative Solutions
Effective local and state laws for curbing gun trafficking:
Licensing Gun Dealers (no current IL law)
Background checks for private sales (IL law since 2014)
Reporting of lost or stolen guns (IL law since 2014)
Deterrence
Failure to check if buyer has FOID card is a misdemeanor
Failure to adequately records is a petty offense
Federal bills:
Background checks for all private sales
Anti-trafficking laws

18. My contact info
Tony Iweagwu, Policy Advisor and Counsel Office of the Mayor City Hall, Room Phone: (312)