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Wow, Chicago is still down 50% to last year. That's a huge variance that's held up for a few weeks now and last year was already down from the spikes of the two prior years... That spike has been totally erased and it's now down from the years before that... I know it's been super cold which has to help, but there's been warmer weeks as well this year and there's surely been other cold winters in the last decade that had more homicides than this year so far. Hope the trend continues.
It was really only COLD for three days in late January. Other than that this winter had been quite dry and warmer than normal. It's snowed a bit the past few days, but not really cold. The next two weeks look around freezing and then it should quickly start to warm.
Everyone will say this winter was crazy because of the POLAR VORTEX, but in reality it was only three days of crazy weather, then the temps actually shot right up to the mid 50's.
Wow, Chicago is still down 50% to last year. That's a huge variance that's held up for a few weeks now and last year was already down from the spikes of the two prior years... That spike has been totally erased and it's now down from the years before that... I know it's been super cold which has to help, but there's been warmer weeks as well this year and there's surely been other cold winters in the last decade that had more homicides than this year so far. Hope the trend continues.
I don't think it's the weather. Just looking at the temps this year (https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/ch...monyr=1/1/2019) versus the averages...24 of 42 days recorded this year were at or above historical average highs, or 57% of days. 10 of those days were in the 40s or 50s. In 2018, the number of days at or above average highs was 21 of 42 days, or 50% of days. Yet homicides are down 50% compared to last year, but 2019 has had more above average days than 2018 so far. This is not the reason why homicides are down, sorry.
Atlanta is at 12 now officially - 2.47 per 100K. It's now higher than Philadelphia's per 100K rate and barely below both Detroit and Oakland. Dallas went from 15 to 14 - one of them must have been ruled self defense or not a homicide very recently.
At least 41 for NYC now as a seemingly random murder happened early yesterday morning as a masked gunman ambushed a guy getting into his car at 2:30am and shot him dead. Ugh.
I dont know why there are even 22 murders a year in San Diego.
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