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Same time last year it was 301. The last time Detroit ended the year under 300 murders was in 1967 (which actually ended with 281). Though of course, the homicide rate would have been a lot lower that year with the population difference, likely somewhere around 25-30 per 100K people.
Boston's murder rate currently sits at 36, don't know about the metro, I suppose you could add 2 or 3 murders for a total of maybe 40 in a metro of 2.5 million for a rate of about 1.6/100,000
2011:
Boston metro had 95 murders and the city had 57. Metro rate of 2.1. With Boston only having 36 murders this year, the rate is going to drop well below 2. Boston is about as safe as you can get for a major city in the US. Even SD and Seattle have higher rates.
DC metro had 210 murders and the city had 88. Metro rate of 3.6.
NYC metro had 852 murders and the city had 419. Metro rate of 3.8.
Philly metro had 517 murders and the city had 333. Metro rate of 8.6.
That place has gotten worse. Newark has not had under 90 homicides since 2009. From 2001-2009, it had under 90 homicides 5 times out of those 9 years and yet it hasn't had under 90 murders in the last 6 years now.
Its rate this year is around 36/100k. 2013 was still the worst year of the 2000s. Murder rate was 40.3/100k.
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