With his parents and brother and sister-in law in the audience, Fardon, who is likely to step down no matter who wins the White House in November, recited a number of grim statistics. So far this year, homicides are up more than 40 percent, and overall shootings are up by nearly 50 percent, he said. Neighborhoods on the city's South and West sides, where poverty and drugs and gangs have ruled for decades, have become "isolated, traumatized and terrorized by gun violence," Fardon said.