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Baltimore has as many murders as Chicago and Philadelphia. May be the murder capitol for the first time ever.
I've seen that mentioned a lot as well. Not sure what's going on in Baltimore, but with a current rate of over 5 only 6 weeks into the new year is quite high, especially being in January/February which are colder months and normally see lower numbers.
I've also noticed Indinapolis is quite high this year, as well as last year.
A few other rates:
Kansas City: 9 (2.0)
Washington DC: 16 (2.5)
The latest I found for St. Louis was just through January, but it was already up to 14 murders, which is a rate of 4.4. It is possibly it's higher than Baltimore by now.
Last edited by Chicago60614; 02-18-2014 at 12:04 PM..
I thought the same thing, but the city limits are large and there are 430,000 people there. Still seems quite high for mid February.
Ok, I had no idea it had a population that big.
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