(The Center Square) – Illinois state Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, studies Chicago’s somewhat mixed-bag crime trend data with little question about what he feels needs to come next in the ongoing fight for peace and greater public safety.

New data shows over the last year even as homicides were at a 10-year low, arrests in those cases also fell from 42% to 27%, or just 133 apprehensions in 498 investigations.