* Illinois State Police…
For the fourth year in a row, the number of shootings on Illinois interstates has dropped. The Illinois State Police (ISP) is reporting interstate shootings statewide decreased 31% in 2025, compared to 2024, with zero fatal interstate shooting in Illinois. This is the first time in roughly a decade there has been zero interstate shooting fatalities. […]
Since the post-pandemic spike of 2021, there has been a decrease in interstate shootings every year:
• 31% decrease from 2024 to 2025
• 53% decrease from 2023 to 2025
• 68% decrease from 2022 to 2025
• 80% decrease from 2021 to 2025
“When faced with a surge of violence on Illinois interstates, ISP took immediate action, dedicating personnel, technology, Air Operations, K9 units, forensics, and investigative expertise, successfully decreasing the number of shootings,” said ISP Director Bredan F. Kelly. “Our multifaceted approach has proven to be effective, but as crime evolves, so will we in order to keep our communities safe.”
The use of ISP Air Operations and Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) has been instrumental in identifying and tracking those committing crime, as well as reducing crashes. ISP uses its Air Operations to help track vehicles and individuals fleeing from officers, reducing the risk of a high speed pursuit that can result in a fatal crash. ISP also uses ALPRs, not only to assist in apprehending individuals in real time as the crime occurs, like a vehicle hijacking, but also during investigations. Troopers and Special Agents can use ALPRs to identify vehicles that may have been involved in or witnessed an interstate shooting and follow up with those individuals. ISP has installed ALPR cameras on interstates in counties across the state as part of the Tamara Clayton Expressway Camera Act, enacted in 2020.
* Accompanying graph. The blue line represents all shootings, the orange line is for injury-related shootings and the gray line is for deaths…
This was a big issue in the past. Interstate shootings rose from 51 with three fatalities in 2019 to 310 with 28 fatalities in 2021.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Jan 12, 26 @ 1:41 pm:
Interesting that the commenters screaming about crime on another post are, so far, silent about this one.
- Hoosier Daddy - Monday, Jan 12, 26 @ 2:01 pm:
Considering I drove from Champaign to Miami and back and then to Atlanta to see the #1 Hoosiers destroy the ducks and saw 0 ( thats a number less than one) ISP Troopers it is not due to their efforts. Locally the liberals decry LPR (Urbana bans them) so where are the liberals supporting LPR’S?
- JS Mill - Monday, Jan 12, 26 @ 2:02 pm:
=Interesting that the commenters screaming about crime on another post are, so far, silent about this one.=
They are all on a Zoom trying to figure out their “what about…” responses.
- DuPage Saint - Monday, Jan 12, 26 @ 2:05 pm:
I hope it is a trend and hope it continues for many years. Good grief Madigan gone Safe T act not causing increase in crime what next from the sky is falling crowd?
- Rich Miller - Monday, Jan 12, 26 @ 2:16 pm:
===where are the liberals supporting LPR’S? ===
Um, do you have only one on and off button? Life is a whole lot more complicated than that.