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Chicago ends the year with about 500( highest is 513 while another source puts it at 492) at a rate of 18.5/100k, 13% decrease from 2018 and the third consecutive year with a decrease.
Meanwhile, a few suburbs and satellite cities experience surges. Gary IN ends the year with 58 homicides(from 40 in 2018) at a rate of 77/100k. Joliet has 17 homicides(compared to 8 in 2018) at a rate of 11.5/100k, while Aurora sees 10 homicides(compared to 4 previously and includes a mass shooting that killed five) at a rate of 5/100k.
Pittsburgh's 37th homicide victim of 2019 was a 90-year-old man who was "targeted".
Using our city's 2018 population estimate of 301,048 we now have a rate of 12.29/100,000.
This might be the lowest we've had in recent history. I truly hope Pittsburgh can even get below 10/100,000 in the coming years. Our city is gentrifying very rapidly.
Nobody cares about Baltimore. DC yes but Baltimore no.
Except no one was talking about DC...
Back to the original question, Baltimore is more prominent city than St. Louis hence the media's attention to it's crime over St. Louis. That being said, St. Louis couldn't make it 24hrs into the new decade without a murder happening (5 to be exact)
Chicago ends the year with about 500( highest is 513 while another source puts it at 492) at a rate of 18.5/100k, 13% decrease from 2018 and the third consecutive year with a decrease.
Meanwhile, a few suburbs and satellite cities experience surges. Gary IN ends the year with 58 homicides(from 40 in 2018) at a rate of 77/100k. Joliet has 17 homicides(compared to 8 in 2018) at a rate of 11.5/100k, while Aurora sees 10 homicides(compared to 4 previously and includes a mass shooting that killed five) at a rate of 5/100k.
Ugh horrible. NYC is at 3.5/100k, LA @ 6.5/100k, and every other city in at least the top 10 besides Philly has a much lower rate than Chicago. If Chicago wants to be the "newyorkesqe" world class city it's destined to become, they need to push that rate down near 10/100k to start with.
That's another big part of why they were getting so much flak for their murder rate. It's the freakin 3rd largest city in the most important and powerful country in the world. If it was Philly or Detroit getting the most murders no one especially abroad would bat an eye.
Disagree. No one west of Hagerstown cares about Baltimore. Only reason I know it well is family and from living in DC for 20 years. Seriously, in California it might as well be Youngstown, Ohio with a playoff NFL team.
Baltimore ended the year at 348. Seems like the more its population decreases, the more killings increase.
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