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Detroit: 1477.78 per 100K
Memphis: 1371.76 per 100K
St. Louis: 1165.62 per 100K
Kansas City: 1148.82 per 100K
Milwaukee: 931.64 per 100K
Albuquerque: 913.72 per 100K
Baltimore: 885.97 per 100K
Cleveland: 846.71 per 100K
Anchorage: 845.23 per 100K
Indianapolis: 826.13 per 100K
Tulsa: 739.68 per 100K
Nashville: 721.64 per 100K
New Orleans: 646.86 per 100K
Oklahoma City: 610.63 per 100K
Houston: 586.96 per 100K
Chicago: 563.12 per 100K
DC: 548.22 per 100K
Orlando: 493.58 per 100K
Philadelphia: 485.97 per 100K
Atlanta: 480.14 per 100K
Charlotte: 473.35 per 100K
Phoenix: 470.64 per 100K
Denver: 453.56 per 100K
Dallas: 431.85 per 100K
Cincinnati: 426.56 per 100K
Los Angeles: 422.19 per 100K
Sacramento: 421.86 per 100K
San Antonio: 417.52 per 100K
Miami: 417.08 per 100K
Seattle: 414.54 per 100K
Newark, NJ: 409.2 per 100K
Minneapolis: 408.16 per 100K
Tucson: 406.22 per 100K
Boston: 405.66 per 100K
Fresno: 346.36 per 100K
Las Vegas: 336.23 per 100K
NYC: 315.46 per 100K
Riverside, CA: 295.75 per 100K
San Francisco: 290.01 per 100K
Pittsburgh: 289.88 per 100K
Tampa: 289.86 per 100K
Portland: 288.93 per 100K
Bakersfield: 243.77 per 100K
San Diego: 228.4 per 100K
San Jose: 210.83 per 100K
Austin: 193.15 per 100K
Columbus, OH: 176.46 per 100K
Honolulu: 130.55 per 100K
Another rough weekend in Chicago. The total for 2020 so far is now somewhere between 65 and 70. That puts it on pace to be one of the bloodiest of the last decade, although still short of 2016/2017. At this rate at least 500 murders for the year is unfortunately looking more and more likely.
They experienced a huge spike after Freddie Gray and Ferguson. The pro-Black ethos and close ties to Bmore probably had a factors in shaping how people viewed police and authority... and police may have responded accordingly. Like in Baltimore but lessened.
Furthermore, a few rappers from DC who were heavy into violence (Yung Gleesh, Shy Glizzy, Fat Trel) blew up regionally around 2013 reaching peak commercial success in 2015, that could possibly attract criminals from other areas to do some deals/business in the city. Rappers basically advertise good profits/business on youtube via their rap videos.
I saw the same thing happened in Boston-a rapper finally blew up, got big, and signed a major deal. A plethora of local rappers/gangsters then tried to gain "clout" in hopes of achieving fame and we experienced 3 straight years of homicide increase although not as dramatic as DC. But in their videos and production credits people from Chicago, Atlanta, MIami, Virginia, Connecticut, LA, Detroit, and New York were appearing and boasting about their criminal exploits. Fat Trel even spent a good deal of time in Boston around 2015-expanding his criminal network. Fat Trel was soon incarcerated but has since recently been released back on to DC streets after gun charges..
Street culture works in illogical ways really...but there's no other way to explain it in DC
Now if you want to be more academic, you could say when gentrification reaches a certain level and food and home security and disposable income reaches a low for the unfortunate population, crimes of desperation and violence increase.
DC crime has no correlation what so ever to Baltimore crime trends. Niether does the music of today play a role in any of this. In the 90's DC had no rappers or rap scene remember it was uncool to rap around these parts bc of Go Go music. As I have been saying ALL along its Obama coming into office is what drove crime down. In 08-09 his inaugural year DC had 189 and 184 murders respectively and hasn't seen that since. The year DC had 160 is when it was Obama's last year in office in 2016.
There is no way to prove this but I am in and from the DMV and know the sentiment of the metro. It was good times but it was disrupted when Trump took office. Now 160 seems to be normal now!
Another shot and killed in Mattapan . Another is in critical condition after being shot in the head in Hyde Park.
Body found in Roxbury under investigation,l and not yet ruled a homicide, as is a fatal police shooting where the wrong suspect may have been shot (evidence is beginning to suggest that was the case)
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