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St. Louis ended the year with 159 murders and a murder rate of 49.9 per 100,000. If that's the highest rate among all cities of at least 100,000 residents, it's the first time since 1985 that a city not named Detroit, Flint, Gary, New Orleans, or Washington D.C. is the Murder Capital. Unlike those cities, St. Louis sits west of The Mississippi. Is this the first time that the U.S. Murder Capital was a city located west of The Mississippi?
Brooklyn: 4.6 per 100k
Queens: 2.7 per 100k
Manhattan: 2.2 per 100k
Bronx: 6.7 per 100k
Staten Island: 3.2 per 100k (assuming Staten Island had zero murders in the last week and a half — the Daily News numbers have to be incorrect)
Might be the first time Staten Island was higher than Queens. Most murders were in the poorer northern part. Could also be the first time Manhattan is lower than queens.
Murder rates are a terrible judgement though. So many more people get saved by paramedics these days that it really doesn't paint the correct picture. IMO it's all about the violent crime rate. Like to have more shootings is worse than the murder rate dropping a little more. Philadelphia disappointly had more murders in 2014 than 2013. There were some weird ones this year including the guy who ran over 3 children in a police chase through the hood (Charles Barkley paid for their funerals), and the Vietnam drug nexus murders where the one guy survived being shot and tossed into the river. Pretty depressing on the whole.
Murder rates are a terrible judgement though. So many more people get saved by paramedics these days that it really doesn't paint the correct picture. IMO it's all about the violent crime rate. Like to have more shootings is worse than the murder rate dropping a little more. Philadelphia disappointly had more murders in 2014 than 2013. There were some weird ones this year including the guy who ran over 3 children in a police chase through the hood (Charles Barkley paid for their funerals), and the Vietnam drug nexus murders where the one guy survived being shot and tossed into the river. Pretty depressing on the whole.
Philadelphia finishes 2014 with 247 homicides. Up one from 2013 where there were 246
Depends on which source you look at for Chicago in 2014. The Trib reports 407 total homicides, a slight decrease from last year, which would give the city a rate of ~ 14.9 per 100k.
has to be one of the highest at 34 per 100k of pop.
Some other cities like New Orleans, Detroit and St. Louis are even higher than that this year. Here is a list of some cities so far.
USA Chicago, Illinois (2,718,782): 407 = 15.0/100k
New York City, New York (8,405,837): 328 = 3.9/100k
Detroit, Michigan (681,090): 304 = 44.6/100k
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1,553,165): 247 = 15.9/100k
New Orleans, Louisiana (378,715): 150 = 39.6/100k
St Louis, Missouri (318,416): 159 = 49.9/100k
Cleveland, Ohio (390,113): 106 = 27.2/100k
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (599,164): 87 = 14.5/100k
Kansas City, Missouri (467,007): 77 = 16.5/100k
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (305,841): 71 = 23.2/100k
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (610,613): 62 = 10.2/100k
Birmingham, Alabama (212,113): 59 = 27.8/100k
Tulsa, Oklahoma (398,121): 54 = 13.6/100k
Boston, Massachusetts (645,966): 52 = 8.0/100k
San Francisco, California (837,442): 46 = 5.5/100k
Austin, Texas (885,400): 31 = 3.5/100k
Portland, Oregon (609,456): 22 = 3.6/100k
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