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The fact that Miami-Dade County has 21 murders while having a population of 2.7 million is crazy.
Maybe it's the warm weather and sunshine, which is why Los Angeles and San Diego are so low. Meanwhile the worst places have cold climates, like Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, etc.
Maybe it's the warm weather and sunshine, which is why Los Angeles and San Diego are so low. Meanwhile the worst places have cold climates, like Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, etc.
LA, Miami, San Diego gentrification is faster than those cities.
Ok so that 21 number is just for the Miami-Dade County Police and doesn't include the Miami Police Department etc. It looked too good to be true. Still a pretty impressive number for the huge population they serve. It looks like both violent and non-violent crime are way down all over the Miami area this year.
Ok so that 21 number is just for the Miami-Dade County Police and doesn't include the Miami Police Department etc. It looked too good to be true. Still a pretty impressive number for the huge population they serve. It looks like both violent and non-violent crime are way down all over the Miami area this year.
Wow, I wonder what they're doing behind the scenes to help with the drop?
They've rolled out some data driven "never centers" which are called Startegic Decision Support Centers. Using technology developed in conjunction with the University of Chicago. They also rolled out "ShotSpotters" which instantly tell officers on their smart phones where gunshots are coming from and then working with the nerve centers to target people in that area who are known to be involved in crime.
Analysis have shown something as small as 1,000 to 1,500 people in the city that are on a revolving high risk group can predicted to be part of upcoming or ongoing crime a large majority of the time.
So far this year they rolled out a new nerve center in the Grand Crossing police district where the number of shootings has dropped from 38 shootings last year to 18 shootings this year. Murders are down over 50%.
They first rolled out the centers in the Englewood and Harrison districts. Those districts have seen shootings drop, for instance Englewood shootings:
2016: 64
2017: 50
2018: 22
Total number of shooting incidents citywide:
2016: 733
2017: 615
2018: 462
-37%
An Illinois billionaire just donated $10,000,000 this week to expand out the nerve centers that work together with the U of Chicago's program to roll it out in many more police districts.
Even in my safe area of Lakeview, the neighborhood had seen a wave of robberies since it has nearly 100 bars and is the middle of Boystown and also Wrigleyville with drunks out at all hours of the day. Robberies the first few months of the year:
NYC 64
LA 62
Chicago 127
Philly 76
Houston 55
Miami 14
San Antonio 25
Seattle, Washington 10
Pittsburgh, PA 20
Milwaukee 25
Phoenix 36
Columbus, Ohio 27
Anchorage, Alaska 12
Oakland, CA 21
New Orleans 53
Baltimore 76
Orlando 14
San Diego 11
Albuquerque, New Mexico 20
Kansas City, MO 31
Colorado Springs, CO 10
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 30
Fresno, CA current at 10 compare to 18 last year
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 4
Buffalo, NY 6
Little Rock, Arkansas 15
Camden, New Jersey 7
Macon, GA 12
Montgomery Alabama 11
Dayton, Ohio 4
Bessemer, Alabama 7
Atlantic City, NJ 1
York, PA 2
Savannah, GA 7
Norfolk, VA 10
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