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Plain Dealer will post information on all homicides this year - Metro - cleveland.com
Plain Dealer will post information on all homicides this year
"The Plain Dealer will list information on every 2009 homicide in its seven-county coverage area on its Web site, cleveland.com.
The searchable database, which can be found at cleveland.com/datacentral, will include details of the slayings, photos of victims and links to stories. The site also maps each killing.
Northeast Ohio typically has 150 to 200 homicides a year. The majority of those occur in Cleveland.
In Cuyahoga County, there were 114 homicides last year, and 102 of them happened in Cleveland. There are nine cases awaiting rulings that will more than likely be homicides, according to the coroner's office.
Homicides in Cleveland had stayed in the triple digits during the 1970s, 1980s and first half of the 1990s, hitting a high of 333 in 1972. As Cleveland's population dropped, so did the number of killings, with 90 or fewer homicides for eight years -- 1997-2004.
The number of killings in Cleveland rose each year from 2005 to 2007, when it reached a 13-year high. Last year, however, the number dropped.
In 2008, the city adopted aggressive programs to remove illegal guns from the streets. Police targeted high-crime neighborhoods for a few days each month, established gun-suppression initiatives and created a Gang Impact Squad.
Mayor Frank Jackson has also cited the hiring of 150 police officers to replace those lost to attrition in the last couple of years and better cooperation between residents and police as reasons for the decline."
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