Obama: No ‘silver bullet answer’ for record-high murder rate in Chicago

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President Obama was unable to put his finger on a single main reason for an uptick in homicides in his hometown of Chicago, during a Thursday interview with NBC-Chicago.

“I don’t think there’s one reason and I don’t think there’s a silver bullet answer for it,” Obama said when asked about the dramatic spike in murders in 2016.

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