2017 Final Numbers

Disregarding the Department's extensive manipulation and outright lies, the final Butcher's Bill for Chicago is as follows (all numbers per HeyJackass.com)

• Final 2017 Totals
  Shot and Killed: 624
  Shot and Wounded: 2937
  Total Shot: 3561
  Total Homicides: 675

Remember, HeyJackass counts police shootings in their totals (9 CPD, 1 Amtrak, 1 ISP) so that leaves fourteen homicides the Department is hiding so far.

HeyJackass.com also sums up the year as follows:

• It’s that time of year when we make a piss poor attempt to summarize the year that was. We classified 2016 simply as a “shitshow”. We’re going to say that 2017 was slightly less shitshow-y, but a shitshow nonetheless.
  
  For more than half of the year, 2017 was running ahead of 2016 with such performances like the disastrous July 4th weekend that tallied over 100 shot or the annual Father’s Day Shoot-O-Rahm-a. By August-time, the idiocy, for whatever reason, retraced back to 2015 levels where rainbow farting unicorns grazed along the lakefront and songs of “#crimeisdown” filled the air.
  
  Come midnight Jan 1, 2018, 16.5% less people were dead and nearly 20% less people were found themselves with additional ventilation. Aside from comparing 2017 to the worst year in two decades, a decline in the incline is parade worthy (just don’t invite the carjackers or the $200 million overtimers).
  
  Fortunately, we fell way short with our 2017 prediction of 850 homicides and 3850 shot and wounded. 2018 may likely fall somewhere in-between 2017 and 2015 with 600-650 homicides and 2500-3000 shot and wounded. If the Polar Vortex decides to hang out for much the winter, we think we’ll end up closer to the lower end of that range.
  
  Finally, many thanks to everyone who visited, liked, retweeted, emailed and hit the tip jar this past year. Have yourself a safe and prosperous new year.

Maybe they were running out of people to shoot, leading to the end of year slowdown. We're still betting on well over 500 this year in any event.