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I wonder if anyone has or is willing to compile a list of cities ranked by largest percentage increases compared to 2019. I wonder where Atlanta would be ranked, or do I really really want to see it?
Speaking specifically for Atlanta, we’re about at a 50% increase (141 homicides as of 12/04/2020 compared to 96 homicides this same time last year) in homicides compared to 2019. I’d be curious to see where Atlanta would be ranked as well.
Speaking specifically for Atlanta, we’re about at a 50% increase (141 homicides as of 12/04/2020 compared to 96 homicides this same time last year) in homicides compared to 2019. I’d be curious to see where Atlanta would be ranked as well.
LA is around that as well, from just over 200 last year to over 300 this year.
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While this won't last very long, Atlanta actually has a lower murder rate than Austin . Atlanta is still at 1 according to the APD Open Data database.
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That's the final total? It was at 95 in mid December, but I believe it included the justifiable ones (self defense) and those got subtracted in the end. It's still too high for that population. It was just under 80 one year (2017) so I'm hoping we can go lower than that. Maybe this year (fingers crossed).
Well so much for that. Talk about posts that don't age well. The disturbing thing is Atlanta didn't surpass last year's YTD until mid-June, right around when the Rayshard Brooks killing happened immediately followed by the APD walk-outs. Then the gap widened very fast. If the rate was like this during the first half of the year, we could be well over 200. Well, there's always next year.
186* in the suburbs, with a handful in the Northwest suburbs. The asterisk is there because of a lack of clarification on how many constituted to be voluntary manslaughter/murder(except for 716 in Chicago), but it is the second year since 1996 when the county exceeded 900; 2016 had 921. The record high in 1994 was 1,141- Records I've found on chicagotribune says 1,054/1,061 murders with the two most murderous suburbs for that year were Harvey- 21(68.5/100k) and Robbins- 14(184.4/100k) https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...054-story.html
Baltimore seems to be holding onto a lower rate ironically.
Only its sixth year in a row above 300, and 50+ per 100k. Talk about low expectations.
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. Atlanta is still at 1 according to the APD Open Data database.
