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Dallas - 161 homicides with 142 of those being murders.
Last one involved a second person dying from injuries received during a quadruple shooting at 11760 Ferguson Rd. on Nov. 1st.
2011 - 141, year total = 147
2010 - 147, year total = 157
2009 - 162, year total = 176
2008 - 160, year total = 183
2007 - 210, year total = 226
2006 - 188, year total = 200
2005 - 196, year total = 211
2004 - 237, year total = 263
2003 - 223, year total = 245
2002 - 180, year total = 203
2001 - 223, year total = 250
2000 - 216, year total = 231
The historical numbers include all homicides. Best example of this would be if a homeowner shoots & kills
a bugler, that would be a homicide but not necessarily a murder.
New York City celebrates day without violent crime
For the first time in living memory, New York has spent a day entirely without violent crime.
The city police department's chief spokesman said that Monday was the most bloodshed-free 24-hour period in recent history. Not a single murder, shooting, stabbing or other incident of violent crime was reported for a whole day.
Despite a July spike in homicides, the city's murder rate is on target to hit its lowest point since 1960.
Just a few months ago, residents were living through what one tabloid newspaper called the "summer of blood".
Aggressive prevention tactics Despite the fall in homicides, statistics point to a 3% overall rise in crime.
There has also been a 9% increase in larceny, which police blame on a surge in smartphone thefts.
But killings are now down 23% compared with last year, which represents a 50-year low.
There have been 366 murders so far this year in New York City, compared with 472 at this time last year.
Experts say such a low number of homicides is highly unusual for a US city of eight million people.
Gang-plagued Chicago, Illinois, has chalked up 462 murders this year, despite having a population of about 2.7 million people.
There have been 301 murders in 2012 in the city of Philadelphia, which has 1.5 million people.
Some experts are praising the New York police department's aggressive crime-prevention tactics, notably the so-called Stop And Frisk policy, which has rooted out dozens of illegal guns.
But critics argue that it has led to hundreds of thousands of young blacks and Latinos being stopped without cause.
This has been the most violent year in Camden, NJ's history. The city had its 61st homicide of the year on Monday. The previous record was in 1995 when there were 58 homicides in the city.
In many cities such as NYC, LA, DC, and Atlanta, the number of murders is about half of what it was 10 years ago, and only about a quarter of what it was 20 years ago.
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