But even since July 2020, when the team took shape in some of the city’s toughest neighborhoods on the South and West sides, the violence has not let up. Through Labor Day, official police statistics show, Chicago recorded 540 homicides, 14 more than the same period in 2020, which ended with more than 760 killings — among the highest annual homicide tallies, the city has seen since the 1990s. There have also been 3,043 people shot through Labor Day in Chicago, a jump of more than 9% compared to 2,781 a year earlier, the data show.
