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Petersburg had a rate of 79 in 2020. Do you know the reason behind the murders? Is it gang/drug related?
Petersburg never struck me as that type of place so i'm guessing the crime surge is very recent.
Just recently a 15 y/o kid was sentenced to 30 years for killing 2 men as an ordered hit back in 2018. He was apparently a member of a local gang called OSG that's Crip affiliated. So yeah, there's def gang activity for its size, but most gang members are of some set of Bloods as is the case with most cities in VA. There's a few homegrown gangs like H$2X (High Life Hit Squad) and Z2 that were known to be violent with loose affiliations to Blood sets.
All in all, there's really no singular reason behind why these murders happen. They just do, a lot of the times for petty reasons or for no reason at all. There's no turf war between gangs or drug pushers to blame here.
16 year old male shot and killed near the Bean in Millennium Park downtown.
Three have been killed so far this sunny Saturday. Since the summer weather has hit all this week since Monday, the city has been seeing an average of 2 murders a day. Still, overall murders for the year are slightly down by 6% from statistics revealed for May 8th.
Petersburg had a rate of 79 in 2020. Do you know the reason behind the murders? Is it gang/drug related?
Petersburg never struck me as that type of place so i'm guessing the crime surge is very recent.
Damn.. Petersburg is that bad? I was there 12 years ago and it does seem like a decent run of the mill American type of town... its like Compton, you cant even tell whats good or bad.
Chicago wants to be compared to New York, LA, Boston, San Francisco, etc. when it comes to all kinds of metrics. But when someone points out Chicago's comparatively very high murder rate relative to virtually every other major US city and suddenly it's, "well at least we aren't Memphis or Jackson!!" Yes, Chicago, at least you are not Jackson or Memphis, well done.
its a real good city the crime is as bad as anywhere else but concentrated to a few neighborhoods seems like
16 year old male shot and killed near the Bean in Millennium Park downtown.
Three have been killed so far this sunny Saturday. Since the summer weather has hit all this week since Monday, the city has been seeing an average of 2 murders a day. Still, overall murders for the year are slightly down by 6% from statistics revealed for May 8th.
Damn.. Petersburg is that bad? I was there 12 years ago and it does seem like a decent run of the mill American type of town... its like Compton, you cant even tell whats good or bad.
Just as shocked as you are.
Ain't it crazy how certain cities get to fly under the radar?. I'm sure state media still paints Richmond as some horrid warzone while Petersburg goes unnoticed.
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