How many murders did your city have in 2008? (crime rate, suburbs)

[censusdata]

Louisville, KY had 77 (the map includes 2 more people shot by police)





Lexington, KY had 16



Nearby cities: Indy has 123

[Milwaukee City]

Homicides down in some large US cities :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation (http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1360620,w-homicides-big-cities-down-2008-010309.article - broken link)

Milwaukee Homicides:
1980 -- 80
1981 -- 76
1982 -- 70
1983 -- 54
1984 -- 48
1985 -- 73
1986 -- 85
1987 -- 95
1988 -- 86
1989 -- 116
1990 -- 165
1991 -- 168
1992 -- 153
1993 -- 164
1994 -- 144
1995 -- 142
1996 -- 138
1997 -- 122
1998 -- 107
1999 -- 124
2000 -- 121
2001 -- 127
2002 -- 108
2003 -- 107
2004 -- 88
2005 -- 122
2006 -- 103
2007 -- 105
2008 -- 71

[DoubleXAs]

NYC as a whole had 523. An increase from last years 496.

But murders rose about 5 percent, to an unofficial total of 523 last year compared with 496 in 2007. There also were more victims of shootings - 1,781 through Dec. 28 compared with 1,708 in 2007 - and more shootings, 1,499 through Dec. 28 compared with 1,432 the previous year.

At the same time, gun arrests were down 12.9 percent, to 3,079 last year from 3,537 in 2007. And drug arrests in 2008 declined 7.5 percent, to 64,352 from 69,628 in 2007.

NYC crime rate drops nearly 4% overall -- Newsday.com (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nystat0212320822jan02a,0,3944923.story - broken link)



btw, The Bronx had like 136.

[Milwaukee City]

I would've never guessed that Louisville had that many killings!!! I'm completely surprised. More than Milwaukee...WOW!!

[JAB27]

Rochester, NY had 44 for 2008.

[DoubleXAs]

Seems to me that alot of smaller cities and suburbs are setting homicide records, while the bigger cities seem to be setting all time lows.

Staten Island, NY had more homicides this year than it did during the NYC crack wars!

[lndigo]

23 in Austin—down from 2007's count of 30.
3.10 per 100,000 at a population of 743,000.

[tablemtn]

I believe Portland, Oregon finished the year with 24 murders for a population of 580,000, resulting in a rate of 4.14 per 100,000. Quite good by American standards, but not good by the standards of cities in other developed countries.

[missionhome]

Here is the data on some cities:

Chicago: 508 for 17.8 per 100k
Los Angeles: 376 for 9.2 per 100k
Detroit: 344 for 37.6 per 100k
St. Louis: 167 for 47.7 per 100k
Kansas City: 126 for 28 per 100k
Washington DC: 186 for 32.1 per 100k
Philadelphia: 332 for 22.9 per 100k
Cleveland: 102 for 23.2 per 100k
Colmbus: 108 for 14.5 per 100k
Newark: 67 for 23.9 per 100k
New Orleans: 179 for 55.9 per 100k
Oakland: 123 for 30.8 per 100k
San Francisco: 99 for 12.9 per 100k
San Jose: 32 for 3.2 per 100k



Chicago had 509 homicides in 2008 -- chicagotribune.com
Detroit homicide rate is lowest in years | detnews.com | The Detroit News
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,5329164.story
2008 deadly year for St. Louis, Kansas City - Columbia Missourian
CrimeinDC.org | Crime Maps of Washington, DC
Homicides down 15 percent in Philadelphia in 2008 - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081230/ap_on_re_us/philadelphia_crime - broken link)
http://www.thestate.com/166/story/638842.html?RSS=untracked (broken link)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28470001/ (broken link)

[Newarkbomb]

Newark, NJ had 67 murders in 2008.. this is really good compared to 2007's 105 murder count.
the population is about 280,000

but i still wouldnt think its too good at all.