Chicago voters are split on how Mayor Rahm Emanuel has handled the crime problem that was a high-profile focus of his second year in office, but they like the job Garry McCarthy is doing as the city's top cop, a Tribune/WGN-TV poll found.
The mayor's approval rating on crime is holding steady from a year ago at 45 percent. But the number of voters who disapprove is rising — from 34 percent last May to 47 percent in the current survey. McCarthy, meanwhile, was viewed as doing well by nearly 6 in 10 voters.
The increase in Emanuel's negatives on crime came during a 2012 that saw more than 500 homicides recorded in Chicago for the first time in four years, as the city's gun violence problem attracted national attention. Since then, Emanuel and McCarthy have gone back to some of the strategies used in years past when violent crime was trending down. In the first four months of this year, homicides are down sharply from the large number in the same period the year before. They are also down compared with the average during those months from 2006 to 2011.
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