Chicago ends 2014 with fewer homicides, but shooting victims up 14 percent - Meaning, thanks to the Chicago Fire Department's Paramedics SAVING more shooting victims... the murder rate dropped

While Chicago ended 2014 with slightly fewer homicides than the year before, 327 more people were shot in the city — an increase of 14 percent, according to the Chicago Police Department.

The city has seen a marked drop in homicides during the past decade — a trend that's been reflected across the country — with several years marking fewer than 500, down from the 900-plus slayings of the 1990s.

Across the city, 407 homicides were recorded in 2014, a 3 percent drop from nearly the same period last year, when there were 419, according to the statistics released Thursday. It was the lowest tally since 1965 when 395 people were slain, according to the department.

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