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People squabble and the media covers Baltimore and Chicago and Philly alot. But uhh, I think we need to focus more of fixing St. Louis. This is scary bad. Like they are all not good, no murder is acceptable, but for a city of less than 300k people.. you shouldn't have 2/3 the amount of murders as NYC, with 8 million people. Effectively, a murder rate 20x higher.
Tell Missouri to stop stripping the state's gun laws. Gun crime has been on the rise statewide ever since they gutted the code a few years back, and they're not done yet. The house last month tried to make it legal for an adult to give a minor a gun without parental permission. Cause why not?
In terms of St. Louis though, which still is a city of 300k even if it is holding on by its fingernails, it's a funding problem. Merging the city and the county and creating one unified police department, prosecutor's office, courts, etc, would certainly go a long way. Why be a city cop when the suburban jurisdictions pay more?
Sadly though, there's currently no viable path to a merger at the moment. Especially since the board of freeholders is going nowhere fast.
The Seattle one is clearly only through July while San Jose is all the way through yesterday. That's part of the problem - many of these sources are nowhere near current and the timeframe is not consistent.
The Seattle one is clearly only through July while San Jose is all the way through yesterday. That's part of the problem - many of these sources are nowhere near current and the timeframe is not consistent.
My apologies. I should not have stated as of 9/3. It's not like these cities are Chicago or Philly where there are murders on almost a daily basis. Whatever the case, you could always contact each agency and demand they get their sh*t up-to-date. You could also reach out to each city's respective newspaper and suggest they do a better job when it comes to reporting murders.
Saw in a Cleveland.com article either yesterday or the day before that there had been 15 murders in the past 16 days and the total is at 110 (same date in 2019 was at 80 and the city finished 2019 at 132).
Cleveland is on pace for about 175 to 180, which would be the most since 1995.
Per capita that would be roughly 46 per 100,000, which I would imagine being the highest of all time.
Also, I imagine the city of East Cleveland (17,000) is probably pretty close to 10. I saw last week someone was shot to death on the corner of Euclid and Marlowe. The significance of that, which was not mentioned in the article, is the East Cleveland Police station is located at ... Euclid and Marlowe.
My apologies. I should not have stated as of 9/3. It's not like these cities are Chicago or Philly where there are murders on almost a daily basis. Whatever the case, you could always contact each agency and demand they get their sh*t up-to-date. You could also reach out to each city's respective newspaper and suggest they do a better job when it comes to reporting murders.
Philly and Chicago are a daily basis in terms of homicides,
It was only a matter of time before New York started to increase. It's a miracle a city that big had crime rates that low.
Yeah agreed. NYC will probably hit 400 homicides this year, which is a lot compared to recent years, but would still be below what it was in the 2000s and first half of the 2010s.
Jacksonville 125
Tampa 21
St Pete 14
Orlando 16 or so, not positive on this one
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