CHICAGO (CBS) — A Chicago City Council committee hearing on Wednesday focused on missing and murdered Black and brown women and girls and CBS News Chicago’s investigation into the overall victimization of black women.
CBS News Chicago investigator Dorothy Tucker was asked to present findings related to that series of reports to the city’s Public Safety Committee.
Committee members noted CBS News Chicago’s analysis of the data, which showed that in 2022, nearly 30% of all crime victims were Black women, even though they make up only 16% of the city’s entire population.
Ald. Stephanie Coleman (16th) spoke about her reactions to the findings.
“I wasn’t numbed by the fact that we as black women are 16% of this population, of the population of Chicago, but we are a third of the population. [the victims of] every crime in the city,” she said. “We as Black women suffer in silence, and the days of suffering in silence when acts of violence were committed against us are over. That’s why it’s happening today.”
A Chicago police captain spoke about changes on the horizon to help improve transparency and the handling of missing and murdered cases involving women and girls of color.
CBS News Chicago spoke with Mayor Brandon Johnson, who discussed his plans to find broader solutions to help Black women in Chicago.
