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I agree with you both. Crime is definitely a problem in DC especially with the uptick in the last year.
I could be wrong but I surmise the bias may have something to do with the fact that a lot of national reporters and outlets are in DC so it’s easier to criticize and write about Chicago’s problems without realizing those same problems exist in their backyard.
Atlanta is officially at 10 homicides as of 2/2 - a rate of 2.06 per 100K. Philadelphia is now at 31 homicides, or a rate of 1.96 per 100K. Dallas is now at 13 for a rate of 0.97 per 100K. Washington DC is now at 21 for a rate of 3.03 per 100K.
Chicago is around 30 now, or a rate of around 1.1 per 100K
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I think the Chicago backers/ DC haters are just a bit salty. Violent crime in DC was way down significantly in 2018, as well as crime on Metro. It's mainly the murder rate jumped up by 42%. The high amounts of crime people are talking about in DC happen across such a small swath of land mass that is mostly happening East of the Anacostia river.
DC's metro region also as a whole is one of the safer large metro regions in the country by percentage.
Montgomery County, MD has over 1 million people with a low number of murders typically, Fairfax is 1.1 million and saw only 20 homicides for example. PG County (the states 2nd most known crime spot after Baltimore) saw a large drop in crime across all metrics.
I think the Chicago backers/ DC haters are just a bit salty. Violent crime in DC was way down significantly in 2018, as well as crime on Metro. It's mainly the murder rate jumped up by 42%. The high amounts of crime people are talking about in DC happen across such a small swath of land mass that is mostly happening East of the Anacostia river.
DC's metro region also as a whole is one of the safer large metro regions in the country by percentage.
Montgomery County, MD has over 1 million people with a low number of murders typically, Fairfax is 1.1 million and saw only 20 homicides for example. PG County (the states 2nd most known crime spot after Baltimore) saw a large drop in crime across all metrics.
I understand the value of reporting rates..however they are a bit misleading for the smaller square mile cities with large urban areas..Boston for example has a homicide rate that would be much less than it is if you include urban areas like cambridge, somerville etc..total number of homicides speaks more to how widespread the issue is
Atlanta is officially at 10 homicides as of 2/2 - a rate of 2.06 per 100K. Philadelphia is now at 31 homicides, or a rate of 1.96 per 100K. Dallas is now at 13 for a rate of 0.97 per 100K. Washington DC is now at 21 for a rate of 3.03 per 100K.
Chicago is around 30 now, or a rate of around 1.1 per 100K
You can add at least 2 for Atlanta from this weekend. One in Buckhead and the other in NW Atlanta. Looking back at 2018, the year started off very quiet with 0 in the first two weeks, but then suddenly had a big surge over 2017. This year started off bad, but if things can quiet down a bit we could get behind last year's pace.
41 days into the year, there still hasn't been a murder in Norfolk, Va. Norfolk averages ~33 murders/year, which is roughly one homicide every eleven days. I don't know when, if ever, Norfolk has gone 40+ days to start a year with no murders, but this is a positively unexpected trend...
Virginia Beach did have one homicide in late January, a man stabbed his husband to death and set their house on fire. That's one homicide in Nfk/VB in a population base of about 695,000 people...
Wow, Chicago is still down 50% to last year. That's a huge variance that's held up for a few weeks now and last year was already down from the spikes of the two prior years... That spike has been totally erased and it's now down from the years before that... I know it's been super cold which has to help, but there's been warmer weeks as well this year and there's surely been other cold winters in the last decade that had more homicides than this year so far. Hope the trend continues.
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