Days into 2021, Chicago carjacking numbers not slowing: Search our map to see where incidents took place
On the heels of a record number of Chicago carjackings in 2020, the trend appears to be continuing into the new year.
Through Jan. 10, the latest city data, Chicago police recorded 61 carjackings. That is compared with a total of 22 in the same time period in 2020. Carjackings in 2020 rose about 135%, to 1,415 in 2020 from 603 in 2019, according to the Tribune review of police information.
“The gangs are using these vehicles because they feel they can’t be traced,” South Chicago District Capt. Michael Murphy told the Tribune in early January. Murphy’s patrol district saw carjackings jump in 2020 to 97 from 36 the year before. “They can do their crimes, whether it be shootings or whatever it is, and then dump the car.”
Search the map below to see where Chicago carjackings took place in 2020 and 2021.
