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Hartford, CT 19
Bridgeport, CT 19
Lynn, MA 11----Lynn saw big upstick in homicide this year most since 1990s
Lawrence, MA 8---Lawrence saw most homicides and shootings since 2010
Springfield, MA 7
New Haven, CT 5
Providence, RI 5
Waterbury, CT 5
Brockton, MA 5---City saw 2 total for 2016 there is upstick this year
Holyoke, MA 4--City saw increase in murders this year
New Bedford, MA 3
Fall River, MA 2
New Britain, CT 2
Chelsea, MA 2
Lowell, MA 2
Manchester, NH 2
Pittsfield , MA 1
Stamford, CT 0
New London, CT 0
Meriden, CT 0
Buffalo 31
Rochester 16
Syracuse 11
Albany 6---city saw uptick in homicide two was total for 2016
Newburgh 5
Yonkers 5
Mount Vernon 4
Niagara Falls 3
Binghamton 3
Monticello 3
Utica 2
New Rochelle 2
Poughkeepsie 1
Schenectady, NY 1
Troy, NY 1
Middletown 1
Newark 40
Paterson 18
Camden 14----same time last year city see 28 homicides
Trenton 15
Jersey City 14
Atlantic City 8
Plainfield 6
East Orange 5
Irvington 3
Elizabeth 3
New Brunswick 2
Bridgeton 2
Millville 1
Vineland 1
Asbury Park 0
Salem 0
Pittsburgh 39
Wilmington, DE 23---city saw 21 in 2016
Chester 21---City saw 26 in 2016
York 9
Harrisburg 9
McKeesport 8
Allentown 8
Erie 6
Reading, PA 6
MdKees Rocks 3
Johnstown, PA 2
Wilkinsburg, PA 2
Wilkes-Barre 2
New Castle, DE 2
Norristown 2
Penn Hills 2
Williamsport 1
Hazleton 1
New Castle PA 1
Coatesville PA 1
Very very true, I have to remind myself of that often, and not even the areas around Midway or Beverly or Hyde Park which are south side but quite nice.
There are many other areas with crime and gang issues that are actually very nice beautiful areas. I drive down through South Shore areas a lot and it still opens my eyes just how attractive and great the areas look even though I know they have crime issues. It's not like the hundreds of thousands of people on the south side are ALL going through bullets and dealing with crime ALL the time. It's mostly young men in the evening hours going after each other.
I'm more familiar with the west side as I drive those streets often to avoid I-290, and from my experience the west side, although fairly small in area, is much worse off than the south side as far as entrenched poverty, abandonment and general crime issues.
There is one main pocket around Englewood and Washington Park that looks terrible and has lots of abandonment, but shockingly (based on the stereotypes) MOST of the south side looks in pretty good shape and isn't full of vacant lots. Crime absolutely, but not as much the wholesale Detroit like visuals of decay and abandonment.
This is all very true, but what I don't like is seeing Chicago posters cherry pick the city in order to say "see look, we aren't that bad!" when literally every single city could do the same thing and post similar low crime/homicide statistics.
It is what it is and the numbers don't lie. You may not live close to those gangsters, but they are still in relatively close proximity.
CLEVELAND, OH 72---same time last year it was 64
Cincinnati, OH 41
TOLEDO, OH 25
Youngstown, OH 14
Columbus, OH 81
Topeka, OH 17
Akron, OH 20
Gary, IN 26
East Chicago, IN 8
East St Louis 18
indianapolis 77
Fort Wayne 21
Little Rock, AR 42
Nashville Metro 65
Oklahoma City 50
Tusla, OK 53
Albany, GA 12
Denver, CO 37
Colorado Spring 23
Wichita 23
Portland, OR 13
Seattle 15
Sacramento 32
Orlando, FL 18
Kissimmee, FL 3
Daytona Beach, FL 10
City of Miami, FL 33
Jacksonville FL 82
St. Petersburg, FL 14
Tampa Bay, FL 26
Tallahassee, FL 8
Fort Lauderdale, FL 12
Fort Meyers, FL 5
New York City 169 as August 13 same time last year city saw 215 if track stay same NYC see under 300 homicides
Chicago 443---Homicides are slightly down from last year but still too high
Los Angeles 177
Compton, CA 13
San Francisco, CA 38
Oakland, CA 37
Stockton, CA 27
Long Beach, CA 16
Philly 195
Bmore 219
New Orleans 109--same time last year it was 175
Kansas City 90/Kansas City, Kan 25
St Louis 123---same time last year 120
Minneapolis, MN 22
Milwaukee 7
Madison WI 11
Charlotte 57
New York City 169 as August 13 same time last year city saw 215 if track stay same NYC see under 300 homicides
Chicago 443---Homicides are slightly down from last year but still too high
Los Angeles 177
Compton, CA 13
San Francisco, CA 38
Oakland, CA 37
Stockton, CA 27
Long Beach, CA 16
Philly 195 Bmore 219
New Orleans 109--same time last year it was 175
Kansas City 90/Kansas City, Kan 25
St Louis 123---same time last year 120
Minneapolis, MN 22
Milwaukee 7
Madison WI 11
Charlotte 57
I always appreciate the fact that you post the Virginia and North Carolina cities. I have always heard that the worst cities in NC for crime are Rocky Mount and Fayetteville. Do you have statistics for those cities? Also, do you have the current rate for Petersburg, VA?
Petersburg is at 6/18.75, having a down year...
Fayetteville is only at 10/4.88, which is also a down year for them. Fayetteville is only on pace for ~16 by year end, which is definitely below average by three to five murders...
Rocky Mount is at 9/16.36, which is well above it's average of ~6-7 murders per year...
The worst large city (over 100,000 city proper) in North Carolina is consistently Durham, which is currently at 22/8.37. Fayetteville normally follows Durham; those two cities are the worst large cities in NC year-in, year-out, and both are having better years than average this year. Durham is on pace for ~35 murders this year...
The worst small cities in NC (under 100,000 city proper) consistently would be Rocky Mount, Goldsboro, Lumberton, Laurinburg, Salisbury, Oxford, a few more. NC small cities and towns are often much more dangerous than the larger cities, which is a contrast to what I found in Northern states and even VA, where for the most part, small cities are safer than the larger ones. The only two real bad small cities in VA is Danville and Petersburg and Portsmouth...
I ran through NC cities back in the day and personally, Goldsboro and Lumberton had the highest "feel" of danger about them. In the larger cities, it seemed like there was always something going on in Charlotte, but that's only because of how big it is. Charlotte and Fayetteville actually felt extremely similar as to how dangerous the cities felt...
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