With 570 people killed and more than 2900 shot in 2018 — with one weekend left – Bill Daley called the city’s crime levels “unacceptable.” No matter where you live in Chicago today, you’re thinking about crime. Whether it’s a carjacking outside a downtown restaurant or shootings and murders in our neighborhoods, it’s out of control,” Daley said. “The fact that the number is down from last year is no reason to declare victory and relax,” said Daley. “We are way out of line with other big cities.” According to published sources, New York had 283 murders and 882 shootings as of December 23 while Los Angeles had 243 murders and 952 shootings as of December 8th. Daley set a goal of reducing murders and shootings in Chicago by 75 percent over the next four years. Daley also lamented Chicago’s low homicide clearance rate of 17 percent, the lowest of any big city in the country. “There’s a complete breakdown of trust with the community. This city needs to rebuild trust by bringing back community policing and faithfully implementing the consent decree,” he said. Daley predicted the consent decree will cost much more than expected. Key costs including:

• Hiring more sergeants to provide better supervision, increase the clearance rate and drive a culture change in the department at the patrol level.

• 40 hours of annual training for all police officers starting in 2019.

• Technology upgrades in all districts.