Nothing quite says a city is safe like having to reroute a holiday parade to avoid reported violence in the area.

Prior to last year, Chicago hadn’t held a Cinco de Mayo parade since 2017. This year’s parade should have signaled a truly triumphant return to normalcy but turned out to be more of a black eye than a shining moment, being rerouted and/or canceled, depending on who you ask, because of what was reported as gang activity on the parade route. Chicago police ended up arresting 27 people.