Can anyone confirm or corroborate these numbers? Pretty amazing if true.
“Since Illinois started granting concealed carry permits this year, the number of robberies that have led to arrests in Chicago has declined 20 percent from last year, according to police department statistics. Reports of burglary and motor vehicle theft are down 20 percent and 26 percent, respectively. In the first quarter, the city’s homicide rate was at a 56-year low.”
The crime rate in Chicago has been headed generally down for years: see http://crime.chicagotribune.com/ for details.
However, the local TV reports that murders were UP 40% in the first quarter versus 2014, so no. Chicago shootings up 40 percent in first quarter of 2015, CPD says; Emanuel, Garcia weigh in on city crime - ABC7 Chicago
Before you attribute the effect to carry permits, try ruing out other possible causes like somebody getting tomorrow’s paper a day early.
It is possible for overall crime to go down while murders as a sub-category go up. Research is needed on this question.