Chicago violence drives murder increase in 2016

The number of violent crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in a decade, thanks mostly to a jump in murder and other violence in large cities like Chicago, according to the FBI Uniform Crime report released Monday.

That report said the number of violent crimes rose 4.1 percent nationwide in 2016 compared to 2015, and the number of murders rose by 8.6 percent nationally. There were 17,250 murders and incidents of “non-negligent manslaughter” in 2016, the most the nation has seen since 2006, but still far below the levels seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s.