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Denver, Colorado: 2013 so far. 16 homicides (population:600,000)
Colorado Springs, Colorado: 14 homicides (population: 425,000)
Aurora, Colorado; 9 homicides (population: 325,000)
Omaha, Nebraska: 6 homicides (population: 425,000) possibly 8, but news report said 6th
Des Moines, Iowa: 4 homicides (population: 205,000)
Columbus, Ohio: 24 homicides (population: 800,000)
Franklin County, Ohio including city of Columbus: 28 homicides (population: 1.2 million)
Cincinnati, Ohio: 21 homicides (population: 295,000)
Utah: 16 homicides total for the state
Salt Lake County: 6 homicides
I think some of the "warm weather"/"Cold weather" correlations are a little bit off. If you look at who is actually being killed, I believe the largest demographic is 14-17 year olds. School gives these kids something to do for 8 hours a day, but when school lets out for the summer and it's not out..is when the homicides increase.
The warm weather trends are constant on a long timeframe. It's not a fluke or myth.
New Orleans is at 58 now... straight-line extrapolation yields 158 for the year.
158 is too many for a city the size of New Orleans, but that would be an improvement. Unfortunately the number will probably go up as summer arrives and the temperatures rise.
Nashville at 11 now, still holding to about the same pace as before (30).
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