Experts concerned about burglaries turning violent in Chicago
We have been tracking an increase in brazen crash-and-grab burglaries for months. So with some turning violent, what can we expect to change?
Elliott Ramos is a senior investigative data journalist for the CBS Data Team based in Chicago. He specializes in data-driven investigations, obtaining and analyzing large government databases via FOIA requests.
He was previously a data journalist for NBC News, covering a range of topics from energy, public transit, policing, and the pandemic - analyzing CDC data,reporting on vaccinations, hospitalizations and virus hotspots. He was previously the data editor for WBEZ, Chicago's NPR station.
A lot of his work was been part of a collaboration with ProPublica Illinois, where we examined the disparate impacts of Chicago's ticketing and debt-collection practices. The work spurred numerous legislative reforms and triggered several class-action lawsuits. He has also done investigations into the city's towing practices, the "stop-and-frisk" program used by the Chicago Police Department known as contact cards.
We have been tracking an increase in brazen crash-and-grab burglaries for months. So with some turning violent, what can we expect to change?
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