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The usual suspects, except Chicago, are up there where I would expect them. Looks looks Chicago has gotten much better and has come a long way since the Cabrini Green era. LA seems to be doing well too. What's going on in Kansas city at the moment? A drug epidemic?
How come no Florida cities on the list? (edit: I just noticed Jacksonville is on there but no Miami, Orlando, Tampa?)
Interestingly, how did Anchorage sneaked its way near the top without getting much attention?
The sources for Orlando and Tampa do not align with anything in the news. For example the source which is a crime map claims 0 homicides for Tampa yet you can find at least a few instances from the news this year.
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What has changed in Wichita? Two so far this year but a total of 44 in 2018!
Nothing has - it's only through January. They're at least 2 months behind everyone else in their numbers.
No Richmond either, which of course doesn't have any legacy as a place where homicides have occurred. Glad Lincoln, NE is on there though.
We all arbitrarily include/exclude cities, but I don't understand some of Marothisu's inclusions. Some are small cities and others are basically suburbs-->Aurora CO? Santa Ana? Really?
Some interesting inclusions and exclusions here lol...
Anyway, Richmond is ccurrently at 10 murders this year, rate of 4.41 per 100k. The city is currently on pace for ~38 murders; Richmond hasn't had below 40 murders since 2013's 37, has had over 50 for three consecutive years and cleared 60 in both 2016 and 2017. So the trajectory right now is in an enormously positive direction...
Norfolk had no murders until March 9 and had 3 last month. That is a rate of 1.22. Norfolk's current pace is for ~11-12 by year end, which doesn't even sound realistic and would obliterate all previous record lows, but I guess it's possible. Violence in general is noticeably down this year...
Conversely, two separate homicides last night in East Charlotte push it to 37 on the year, which puts it's current pace for ~140-141, which would obliterate the record books as a new high. 2014 seems so long ago, when Charlotte established a record low (47). That this is happening in the same era is kinda unbelievable...
We all arbitrarily include/exclude cities, but I don't understand some of Marothisu's inclusions. Some are small cities and others are basically suburbs-->Aurora CO? Santa Ana? Really?
Some interesting inclusions and exclusions here lol...
My list is only cities of 250K+ population as of the 2017 ACS. The exclusions are those which I don't have a reliable source of data for or don't fall in the population minimum requirement. Richmond is not on my list because it doesn't have a population of at least 250,000 people.
Pretty simple. If Richmond was 250K+ population I would include it. I include Aurora and Santa Ana because they each have over 250K+ people. Santa Ana has more people than St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Newark, Orlando, Buffalo, etc. There is absolutely nothing arbitrary about my list other than some cities not having a super reliable source of information.
The usual suspects, except Chicago, are up there where I would expect them. Looks looks Chicago has gotten much better and has come a long way since the Cabrini Green era.
I'm not sure how many times we have to go through this same information over, and over again. With the exception of 2016 and 2017, Chicago has not been in the top 10 for homicide rate in the US among cities of 250K+ population for a long time. 2016 was a massive spike for Chicago way up from the years prior. The years of 2013 and 2014 had the lowest homicides in the city since 1965.
Here are the rankings via the FBI UCR for each year going back a ways in terms of murder rate ranking for Chicago for cities of 250K+ populations:
2018 of course hasn't been released yet from the FBI, but it's probably going to be ranked around 11th or 12th.
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