claim: an agreement between the city of chicago and the aclu caused "virtually all of the rise in homicides" in 2016.
author: jeff sessions
evidence_1: mar 26, 2018 ... as a result, street stops plummeted, to about 100,000 for all of 2016, an 82 ... far  fewer street stops led to nearly 240 additional killings in 2016 alone. ... and a  former captain with the city of new york police department. ... karen sheley, an  aclu staff attorney who is overseeing the agreement with chicago ...
evidence_2: may 14, 2018 ... they concluded the 58 percent increase was caused by the abrupt decline ...  department for a sharp rise in that city's homicide rate in 2016, citing an ... facing  the prospect of an aclu lawsuit, the chicago police department agreed to a ...  note of a nearly 60 percent spike in homicides in chicago in 2016.
evidence_3: oct 19, 2018 ... last weekend there were 0 murders in new york city for the first time in 25 years.  ... in 2015 and 2016, chicago had the same police department and the same  prosecutors, but the ... a number of possible causes, and found that the cause of  virtually all of the rise in homicides was the aclu agreement.
evidence_4: may 15, 2018 ... for example, if we look to the fbi's uniform crime reports for 2016, new york ...  the group noted that the agreement with the city of chicago was similar to a ...  dismissive of the theory that fewer police stops caused the murder spike. .... after  all, violent crime is nearly nonexistent in most totalitarian states.
evidence_5: mar 28, 2018 ... but the relevant differences between the two cities may be even higher than this  ... looking at homicides committed by firearms, in 2016 new york's rate was 2.3  ... to stop-and-frisk without 'causing' an increase in homicides. ... decline in stop  and frisks to its agreement with the chicago police department.