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Yes, Chicago had 28 for all of 2016 (21 for all of 2018) vs Baltimore at 24 as of halfway through this year. That's what the previous poster was throwing out there, I was just saying that's hardly apples to apples.
I don't really think there's an argument for Chicago being worse than Baltimore right now.
That city is truly a warzone and maybe only St Louis is worse.
The closest I would say are the neighborhoods east of Interstate 35, north of the Colorado River and South of 51st street.
What's interesting about Austin is while East Austin, as in the area you specified North of the Colorado River, is often demonized.
The most murderous part of Austin by far is the North Austin Civic Association/ North Lamar area which is in North Austin (as the name says) (which most appreciate with sprawl/Round Rock/Cedar Park/Georgetown/ Williamson County etcetera. Not really associated at all with murder. The second most murderous part of Austin is likely Montopolis which is to the SE of Austin, which while still seen negatively isn't considered part of that core East Austin "hood".
This is from 2013-2018
Greater NACA/N.Lamar(Essentially https://www.google.com/maps/dir/30.3...5df414!1m0!3e0) - 9+6+9+8+9+10+5(so far in 2019)= 51 for 6 years or 8.5 per year.
SE Austin/Montopolis/East Riverside- 7+3+1+3+3+4+1= 21 for 6 years or 3.5 per year.
East Austin (North of Colorado)- 2+1+5+2+1+1+1= 12 for 6 years or 2 per year.
NE Austin (Windsor Park and points East)-1+5+2+9+1+6+0= 24 for 6 years or 4 per year.
N.Lamar.Georgian Acres pop.~110,000 people (8 per 100,000)
East Austin pop.~40,000 (5 per 100,000)
NE Austin (Windsor Park) pop. ~50,000 (8 per 100,000)
Montpolis/Riverside pop. ~65,000 (5 per 100,000)
These are likely the most dangerous parts of Austin, technically much of NE Austin falls into the category of East Austin but even if you take that area as a whole of 90,000. Although it has the worst perception, it is still on paper a safer area than the North Austin area I highlighted.
Wow Baton Rouge’s numbers are crazy....what’s going on down there? Those numbers don’t seem accurate...
You are more than free to click the link provided and look for yourself. Make sure you filter out the "attempted" ones as well as any justifiable, vehicular related, etc homicides. The column with the crime type is "Crime" and you can do a contains on "Homicide" there. If you want to filter out the stuff like justifiable homicides, then that more detailed data about what type of homicide is in the "Offense Description" column. You'll see the numbers are unfortunately accurate. Just on First Degree murders alone, committed, there's 42 of them. That alone would still make it have an 18.95 per 100K rate, which would rank 5th highest. Unfortunately, 2nd degrees homicides still count in this, so it goes way up.
Actually that reminds me, this was using the 2017 numbers. Here's updated rates using the newer 2018 estimate for cities (not updating Las Vegas and Honolulu (Oahu) though - that population comes from the FBI as it goes beyond the boundaries of the cities)
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