City and Metro Murders 2016 (children, cities, criminal, ghettos)

[Warszawa]

Originally Posted by Ant131531

That's the point I was making. There's the demographic shift happening within the black population that resides in the city itself. African Americans are leaving the city and are being replaced by foreign blacks. Foreign blacks don't commit nearly as much crime as native blacks do because they're not entangled in a gang and survival culture and mentality. It's not a politically correct thing to say though. NYC's black population is rather unique in that half of it is literally black immigrants. It's probably why the drop in crime and murder has been even more pronounced and dramatic than in other cities over the last 25 years.

Immigrants from Jamaica and Haiti and places like that don't commit crime because they come here to improve their lives, not to turn into criminals

[Nibbidy]

Originally Posted by Warszawa

I looked last year and some of the worst areas of St. Louis have homicide rates of like 200/300 per 100k, which is insane, it is literally like a warzone! Chicago is astonishing in its own way because of the sheer raw size of the population

Oh i imagine St.Louis probably has outrageous murder rates by neighborhood. Seeing how it already has the highest rate in the country and everytime i read their news its a murder on the north side. Id like to see the rate for those neighborhoods on the north side.

[censusdata]

Louisville just had #116. I remember many years when it was 45 to 65 and 85 was a bad year.

[MurphyKing54]

Originally Posted by Ant131531

That's the point I was making. There's the demographic shift happening within the black population that resides in the city itself. African Americans are leaving the city and are being replaced by foreign blacks. Foreign blacks don't commit nearly as much crime as native blacks do because they're not entangled in a gang and survival culture and mentality. It's not a politically correct thing to say though. NYC's black population is rather unique in that half of it is literally black immigrants. It's probably why the drop in crime and murder has been even more pronounced and dramatic than in other cities over the last 25 years.

I read somewhere that Nigerians were the most educated ethnicity group in the entire country. This pretty much sums it all up.

[NigerianNightmare]

Originally Posted by MurphyKing54

I read somewhere that Nigerians were the most educated ethnicity group in the entire country. This pretty much sums it all up.

We are!

[murksiderock]

Virginia Beach just recorded it's 15th murder of the year. Year-to-date: 15/3.31...

Meanwhile, Richmond is up to 63 murders this year, and is currently sitting at 63/28.64. Richmond has more murders than Virginia Beach and Norfolk (44) combined, and is just short of Norfolk and Newport News (24) combined...

[PurpleHaze1100]

Baltimore at 291 on pace to pass 300 by the end of the month.

[mosdefinitely]

Originally Posted by Nibbidy

Oh i imagine St.Louis probably has outrageous murder rates by neighborhood. Seeing how it already has the highest rate in the country and everytime i read their news its a murder on the north side. Id like to see the rate for those neighborhoods on the north side.

I remember talking to someone on a bus from Philly to NYC. She was originally from St. Louis and at the time when I was living in Philly, the murder rate has always been around 15-20 per 100,000 (I think it still hovers around that area). I lived in a relatively nice area (there were a handful of murders in the area during the time I lived there, 4-5 years but mostly just petty crime). Some other local said it's mostly due to petty street violence between gangs/crews. She talked about how different St. Louis got in certain neighborhoods and how she never has visited certain parts because of that. She said the school system is very bad in certain parts of the city. Something I personally saw when I took part in a volunteering tutoring session of local West Philly middle school children. It was shocking how little they knew about basic math but some of them had bad upbringings (few of the students had incarcerated parents). Philly of course has its few pockets in West Philly/North Philly that can be legitimately seen as ghettos but it also contains in my opinion, a lot of sketchy/quiet neighborhoods that still have petty crime (I never had a friend get robbed but I lived a block away from where 3-4 robberies happened one month). Being familiar with my area, I knew it was a quiet side street that I never used at night although very convenient during the day.

[lovecrowds]

157 homicides thus far this year in Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Jurisdiction ties all all-time record.

Hard to believe back in 2012, LVMPD jurisdiction had only 76 homicides and had a homicide rate below the national average.

population: 1.5 million people in Metro Jurisdiction area which is Clark County outside of the city of Mesquite, Henderson and North Las Vegas.

Metro's record-tying 157th homicide victim identified as 48-year-old Las Vegas man | KSNV

North Las Vegas, NV 21 homicides (population: 226,000)
Henderson, NV 11 homicides (population: 270,000)

Clark County homicide total: 189 homicides (population: 2 million)

It seems like many western cities have had a large increase.

Salt Lake City homicides have quadrupled since 2009 which a tally of 12 so far this year (population: 190,000)

Denver is up to 55 so far this year, which would be highest since 2005. Denver had six straight years of homicide number ranging from 33 to 39 from 2009 to 2014. (population: 680,000)

Lincoln, Nebraska (population:277,000) has seen homicide rates increase by 900% this year. They had 1 last year and are already up to 9 homicides this year.

Lincoln, Nebraska with it's 9 homicides this year has tied the highest number since 1990.

San Bernadino, CA 61 homcides (population: 210,000)

Omaha, Nebraska 29 homicides (population: 444,000)

Wichita, Kansas 30 homicides (population: 390,000)

[Ant131531]

It's crazy to think some cities are hitting all time records....anyone else think this period is starting to remind them of the 90s? This time however, there's no drug epidemic to blame the crime on....so what is it? It's strange though...some major cities are hitting near all-time highs and some cities are hitting all-time lows. It's a strange polarization.