FBI Director: No Simple Answer To Crime

FBI Director: No Simple Answer To Crime

WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter.

FBI director James Comey came to Chicago to announce the addition of a new name to the bureau’s 10 most wanted list, an alleged member of the Latin Kings in Chicago. But he also talked about violence more generally.

Asked whether the rise in shootings this year in Chicago is a statistical blip, Comey said he wouldn’t use that term.

WBEZ’s Katie O’Brien reports.