Ashna Arora

Hypodermic needles lie near a curb near West Van Buren Street on Chicago's West Side in 2018.

Ashna Arora and Panka Bencsik: Chicago program aims to reduce substance abuse — without punishment

November 30, 2022 at 3:20 p.m.

More than 2,100 people died in 2021 in Cook County from opioid overdoses, twice the number of homicides attributed to gun violence. Black residents accounted for more than half of...

Investigator Frank Anson places an electronic monitoring device on a detainee before the person's release at Cook County Jail in 2018.

Ashna Arora and Jens Ludwig: Is electronic monitoring contributing to gun violence? Here’s a look at the data.

May 12, 2022 at 10:11 a.m.

Homicides have surged by 60% in Chicago since 2019. Why? The search for answers has involved a lot of finger-pointing. This is partly because in Chicago, unlike in many U.S....

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