City and Metro homicides 2019 (schools, living, state, largest) - City vs. City - Page 158 - City-Data Forum

Heel82 · 01-02-2020, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Trent Y

Anybody have totals for NCs largest cities? (CLT, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham, WS, Fayetteville)

I believe I read an article a couple weeks ago where Raleigh had hit 29, its highest total since 2008. Unsure if it stayed there.

cj0065 · 01-02-2020, 01:37 PM

New Orleans is estimated to have around 119. Decent drop from last year.

TheseGoTo11 · 01-02-2020, 02:17 PM

Los Angeles 252 homicides and 924 shootings, down from 1100 homicides early 90s

newgensandiego · 01-02-2020, 04:00 PM

A lot of ignorance and unsubstantiated claims in this post. Seems you are desperate to blame others for Dallas' problems, when maybe the reality is that the city wasn't that safe to begin with.

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Originally Posted by jd433

Dallas has just passed the 200 murder mark in one of the most violent years ever for the city. It is rapidly working it's way up the list of the most violent cities in america.

Did the per capita number change? Dallas has high population growth, so it's unsurprising that the number of crimes might climb as more people move there.

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Many folks have moved here from Los Angeles and Chicago which are 2 of the most Gang ridden cities in America. Murders are down in Chicago and Los Angeles and up in Dallas. I wonder if there is any correlation.

Or maybe Dallas doesn't have effective policing?

Dallas metro received 10 times as many people from Asia and rural America than the Chicago region from 2013-2017. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2...migration.html

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Also a lot of the migrant caravan and asylum seekers came to Dallas too. Many from San Pedro Sula, Honduras which is perhaps the most violent city in the world. Guatamala is another violent place. They are pouring in.

Most of the migrant caravan was women and children. Do you have numbers to back any of these assertions or is this just speculative racism/prejudice?

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I've seen many apartment complexes where 2 or 3 families fill each apartment. Dallas has built more apartments than any other metro area. That also contributes to the crime rate increase. Apartments are hotbeds for crime.

Apartment complexes do not equate to crime. There are plenty of cities that have a higher share of renters/apartments that have lower crime than Dallas (NYC, LA, etc.) and plenty of cities with more single-family homes and high crime (Detroit).

boreatwork · 01-02-2020, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by cj0065

New Orleans is estimated to have around 119. Decent drop from last year.

As a city historically worse murder rate wise than Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, DC in the last 30 years NO should get more recognition for bringing it down to 119. That's around 30 per which is by no means safe but a huge improvement from the early 2010's.

Cowboy310 · 01-02-2020, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by shimmy42

they started making the texas cities worse too, especially Houston and maybe Dallas, even though it was always like that

Yes I heard about cats from New Orleans starting trouble in Houston'

Cowboy310 · 01-02-2020, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by TheseGoTo11

Los Angeles 252 homicides and 924 shootings, down from 1100 homicides early 90s

L.A & NYC have cleaned up the most out of the big cities.

I think because the technology and economy is way better in those 2 cities vs everywhere else.The police department in New York is literally ran like a military.

Now Philly is still somewhat dangerous.

marothisu · 01-02-2020, 06:14 PM

marothisu · 01-02-2020, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by KoNgFooCj

Ugh horrible. NYC is at 3.5/100k, LA @ 6.5/100k, and every other city in at least the top 10 besides Philly has a much lower rate than Chicago. If Chicago wants to be the "newyorkesqe" world class city it's destined to become, they need to push that rate down near 10/100k to start with.

While I agree the homicides are too high for sure, it's come down nearly 300 homicides compared to 2016 which was a crazy spike. That is a very notable decrease when it could have easily gone up. Consider that many cities in the US right now have actually been increasing with homicides, not decreasing It's now in line with what it was back in 2015 before the crazy spike, although 2013 and 2014 were lower. And you're talking about "world class city." Chicago is considered very much a world class city and anybody who is actually familiar with all the offerings of the city knows this.

And as discussed numerous times on here, the city might as well be 2 cities. The continuous area from around 35h street south of downtown following between the lake and I-90 (and the ones adjacent to the interestate) including NW areas to the edge of the city has a total population of 1,421,598 people (as of the 2018 Census) with 60 total homicides. That's a rate of 4.22 per 100K which is lower than San Francisco and not much higher than NYC.. That population is almost identical to the population of the city of San Diego.

Taggerung · 01-02-2020, 07:43 PM

According to 'Gun Violence Archive', this year saw:

-15,221 gun deaths (Willful,malicious, accidental)
-29,528 gun injuries
-417 mass shootings
-692 children (age 0-11) shot
-3,071 teenagers (age 12-17) shot
-1,547 incidents of defensive gun use
-1,837 unintentional shootings
-24,100 gun suicides*