City Manager Luke Stowe told attendees at the Evanston Police Department awards ceremony that the city has gone "over 2 years without homicide" and called the milestone "an incredible accomplishment."

Stowe said the stretch without a homicide is likely the longest in at least 50 years and credited collaboration across the Evanston Police Department and other city departments, including SOG investigations, intelligence, crime analysts, patrol, human resources, IT, and the youth and young adults team. He said the result reflected contributions across departments rather than any single action.

The comment was made as part of the awards ceremony remarks and was presented as a departmental and city observation; no crime-statistics release or independent verification was attached to the statement during the event. Stowe framed the milestone as evidence of the department's work: "It's an incredible accomplishment, but also it's a testament to the collaboration and the inner workings of the Evanston Police Department and also other city departments."

Mayor Daniel Biss and other presenters echoed praise for the department's daily work during the ceremony, which focused primarily on recognizing officers, telecommunicators, and civilian employees who responded to shootings, overdoses, violent incidents, and complex investigations over the prior year.

The awards ceremony that included this remark also detailed several investigations and operations over 2024, but Stowe's two-year statement was presented as an administrative remark rather than as a formal crime-report release.