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Year over year, Raleigh almost always has the lowest murder rate among NC's largest core cities. While 1 murder is 1 murder too many in my opinion, it's a testament to Raleigh that it has murder rates so low despite the rapid growth. Among the ten most populated municipalities in the state, I think that only Cary has a lower rate, and it's a suburb of Raleigh.
Of course it's going to have a relatively low murder rate if it has rapid growth. The population wouldn't be growing rapidly if it had a really high murder rate, because people would not be choosing to move there. If you look at all the top murder rate cities, almost all of them have stagnant or declining populations.
Baltimore now at 42 homicides.. There was also a seventeen year old chased down and shot last night and is in critical condition. Baltimore Homicides - baltimoresun.com
Just looked up Baltimore. Their stats are through 2/4 of this year with a total of 37 homicides. That is a 118% increase from the same time period in 2016 (17). Rate of 5.95 per 100K.
Here are some totals this year so far. Rates calculated with 2015 population estimates
* Baltimore: 5.95 per 100K | 37 homicides thru 2/4 | 118% increase vs 2016 same time period
* St. Louis: 4.75 per 100K | 15 homicides thru 1/31 | Unchanged
* Detroit: 3.54 per 100K | 24 homicides thru 2/8 | 16.7% decrease
* New Orleans: 3.08 per 100K | 12 homicides thru 2/8 | unknown
* Atlanta: 2.59 per 100K | 12 homicides thru 2/4 | 20% increase
* Milwaukee: 2.33 per 100K | 14 homicides thru 2/7 | unknown
* Buffalo: 2.32 per 100K | 6 homicides thru 2/8 | unknown
* Philadelphia: 2.17 per 100K | 34 homicides thru 2/7 | 48% increase
* Chicago: 1.98 per 100K | 54 homicides thru 2/1 | 3.7% decrease
* Washington DC: 1.61 per 100K | 11 homicides thru 2/8 | 22% increase
* Dallas: 1.08 per 100K | 14 homicides thru 1/31 | 7.7% increase
* Los Angeles: 0.75 per 100K | 30 homicides thru 2/4 | 15.4% increase
* Oakland: 0.72 per 100K | 3 homicides thru 2/5 | 200% increase (over 2.6 per 100K in 2015)
* NYC: 0.2 per 100K | 17 homicides thru 1/29 | 22.7% decrease
Last edited by marothisu; 02-09-2017 at 08:36 AM..
Chicago is down around 20% from last year, although the numbers can swing very quickly as a % of the total as time goes on. We're 1/3 through February with 7 murders this month, compared to 46 last year for all of February (the actual reportable numbers for FBI and comparison sake are all lower, but the heyjackass site is quick for stats even though the numbers are inflated).
Last year was such a massive anomaly and a huge increase that I would be fairly surprised if the numbers stayed above 750 for many years on end, as it had settled down around 440 for over a decade before the chaos with the police shootings and protests, etc made the police pull back and the gangbangers took FULL advantage shooting up the neighborhoods where those same residents protested the police only weeks before.
Chicago is down around 20% from last year, although the numbers can swing very quickly as a % of the total as time goes on. We're 1/3 through February with 7 murders this month, compared to 46 last year for all of February (the actual reportable numbers for FBI and comparison sake are all lower, but the heyjackass site is quick for stats even though the numbers are inflated).
Down 14% or 15%, not 20% but at least somewhat progress. However, still way more than 2015 which was at 37 and 2014 which was at 26. As far as February, there were 18 homicides between 2/1/2016 and 2/8/2016. There should be an asterisk though. That includes an unsolved homicide where a family of 6 was killed in their home in the middle of the night where not even the next door neighbors had any idea that they were hurt/killed until awhile later. Nonetheless, even if you reduce that to one, it's been cut in half compared to last year.
Also, never use heyjackass especially for homicides. They count various incidents as murder/homicide that the FBI and literally no other city in the country counts (i.e. self defense killing).
Last edited by marothisu; 02-09-2017 at 02:22 PM..
Holy moly! Those are crazy numbers for a city its size.
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