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The city of Richmond finished March with 6 murders, and had it's first of April yesterday afternoon to push it's current total for the year to 21/9.42. After last year being Richmond's deadliest year since 2006, we are currently on pace for 84 murders, which would blow by '06's 76 and equal the 2005 body count...
In all likelihood, it will slow down at some point this year. Last Spring we were also on pace for 80+ murders but finished with 66....
Now a seemingly complete reversal of two cities:
After setting a record low body count of and murder rate of 47 in 2014, Charlotte went up to 61 in '15, 67 last year. Yesterday there were two different homicides that pushed the Queen City to 26 on the year, homicide rate of 3.14/100k. Charlotte is on pace for 104 murders right now, which would be the worst year seen in the city since around '93. That murder rate would still be shy of 13/100k, and there is still many, many cities with much more dire problems with homicides and street violence. Still, the thing to take away from Charlotte is that the city developed a reputation for cleaning up it's crime, with a murder rate that for the last decade almost never went above 8/100k. So by local standards, this is an alarming turn for the worse. The city has definitely taken notice of the increased bloodshed in Charlotte...
By contrast, Norfolk is a city that typically has a murder rate between 13-14, had 46/18.78 Last year in it's worst year since 2007. And after a one murder March, Norfolk has 5 for the year. Norfolk City is on pace for 20 murders for 2017 which would obliterate the record low (I think Norfolk had 27 or 28 three times or so). I think it's likely that the pace picks up at some point but I do believe the drastic reduction in homicides will carry through the entire year, and is so far a boon for the city...
Wow will Seattle finally be at European level murder rates?
In fact it is lower. You guys have a false perception that European cities are safety heaven simply because in Europe crimes are not reported to the media.... there are lot and lot of Paris suburbs cities with a homicide rate of above 7/100k... Marseille has a homicide rate about the same or a bit higher than Los Angeles. Still low for us standard but not as low as you might think... the thing is that (gun nut will hate this) is that there is simply no gun ps so the homicide rate is way lower than in the us.. but assault, robbery, group of people jumping others, armed assault with knifes occurs way way more in france, U.K. And Belgium than in the us. If people had guns, the homicide rate would be much much higher
Last year was an abnormally low year for murders in Omaha. There were 29 in 2016(lowest since 2004), but 50 in 2015.
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