City and Metro homicides 2019 (unemployment, live, better, rates)
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I am always amazed how safe Minneapolis and Pittsburgh is.
I can’t speak for Minneapolis (you here, Ben Around?), but at least in the case of Pittsburgh our homicides (sans last year’s mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill) are largely confined between young African-American male assailants and victims in just a few neighborhoods. The vast majority of Pittsburghers live their lives unaffected by the violence that befalls those who choose to live and die by the sword instead of just going out and getting jobs.
There was a sizable uptick in the last few weeks in Chicago, but still well below what 2016 and 2017 were, and sizably below last year.
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Originally Posted by mjtinmemphis
I am always amazed how safe Minneapolis and Pittsburgh is.
Minneapolis has gotten safer, but it was not that safe for a long time. My sister went to college in Minneapolis in the early 2000s (lived in a not so good neighborhood) and everyone called it "murder-a-polis" back then. At least her and all of her classmates did.
Not super dangerous but some of these years I remember the homicide rate was over 10 per 100K - I think in the mid to late 90s it was more like 15 per 100K (like what Philadelphia and Chicago have averaged for the last decade).
Via the FBI UCR, here are the homicide rates of Minneapolis historically for the last while:
2000: 13.73 per 100K
2001: 11.12 per 100K
2002: 12.04 per 100K
2003: 12.15 per 100K
2004: 14.09 per 100K
2005: 12.49 per 100K
2006: 15.19 per 100K
2007: 12.66 per 100K
2008: 9.82 per 100K
2009: 4.70 per 100K
2010: 9.59 per 100K
2011: 8.30 per 100K
2012: 9.99 per 100K
2013: 9.09 per 100K
2014: 7.66 per 100K
2015: 11.37 per 100K
2016: 8.39 per 100K
2017: 10.02 per 100K
2018: 7.88 per 100K (unofficial)
Here is Pittsburgh:
2000: 20.52 per 100K
2001: 16.11 per 100K
2002: 13.72 per 100K
2003: 19.98 per 100K
2004: 13.76 per 100K
2005: 19.05 per 100K
2006: 17.25 per 100K
2007: 16.66 per 100K
2008: 23.24 per 100K
2009: 12.49 per 100K
2010: 17.59 per 100K
2011: 14.26 per 100K
2012: 13.14 per 100K
2013: 14.63 per 100K
2014: 22.43 per 100K
2015: 18.57 per 100K
2016: 18.85 per 100K
2017: 17.98 per 100K
2018: 17.98 per 100K (unofficial - would have been 14.38 per 100K without the Synagogue shooting)
And for reference, here is Chicago:
2000: 21.91 per 100K
2001: 22.88 per 100K
2002: 22.05 per 100K
2003: 20.63 per 100K
2004: 15.54 per 100K
2005: 15.59 per 100K
2006: 16.38 per 100K
2007: 15.68 per 100K
2008: 18.03 per 100K
2009: 16.08 per 100K
2010: 15.25 per 100K
2011: 15.94 per 100K
2012: 18.46 per 100K
2013: 15.22 per 100K
2014: 15.09 per 100K
2015: 17.52 per 100K
2016: 28.07 per 100K
2017: 24.13 per 100K
2018: 20.73 per 100K (unofficial)
Between 2007 and 2015, Pittsburgh had 5 years that were higher homicide rate than Chicago. The ones that weren't had rates that weren't that much lower than Chicago. Minnneapolis has had 10 years with a rate of over 10 per 100K between 2000 and 2018, though only 2 of those have come in the last decade, so it's obviously improved. However, I think what it's been averaging wouldn't be considered totally safe - more moderate - this is still higher than LA on average.
Last edited by marothisu; 04-20-2019 at 07:28 AM..
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