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I realized yesterday that Philly's record year, last year, was a rate of 35/100,000 people. DC did not have a record year, and their rate was 32.7/100,000. It's crazy how Philly's reputation is so much worse considering this.
Idk if you know this, but from what I also heard, DC used to average around 400+ kills for a small city in the 1990s. Crazy if you ask me, they made a revitilazation.
Flint is at 37 homicides until November 13th, a 37% decrease compared to the same period last year: link. With a population of about 81k, this gives a homicide rate of 46.
Baltimore’s homicide rate is ~52/100k right now but it’s non-fatal shooting rate is within a stone throw of Philly’s. Both ironically have a lower non-fatal shooting rate than Chicago despite Chicago having a lower homicide rate than both.
I’d have to do the math again
1:3 people who are shot are killed in Baltimore
1:5 people who are shot are killed in Philly
1:6 people who are shot are killed in Chicago
It’s a lot more complex than A + B = C
I was going off of rates for 2021, but maybe I was incorrect. Interesting info on non-fatal shootings, I wonder why that is - and if it's a consistent trend year after year.
Now up to 65 for Pittsburgh after a stabbing homicide this morning in our Mt. Washington neighborhood.
Forgot to add that given the city's 2021 estimated population of 300,431, our homicide rate is currently sitting at 21.6/100,000 as of 11/18/2022. That is well above-average for us.
Nobody has updated Cincinnati in a while, but as of 11/01/2022 it looks like it was at 75.
Given the city's 2021 estimated population of 308,935, Cincinnati's homicide rate was sitting at 24.2/100,000 as of 11/01/2022.
I find Pittsburgh and Cincinnati to be incredibly twin-like in many respects, so I do like to keep tabs on both and compare them.
I was going off of rates for 2021, but maybe I was incorrect. Interesting info on non-fatal shootings, I wonder why that is - and if it's a consistent trend year after year.
Gotcha. Regarding the non-fatal shooting rates that’s more correlated to raw city size and imho a better reflection of violent crime than homicides (which are 98% attributed with gun violence). Baltimore had 1.1k non-fatal shootings last year. Philly had over 2k. Chicago had 4.4k.
The ratio has more to due with the nature of the shooting. Getting shot in the back of the head at point blank is a obviously a lot different than being grazed by a stray bullet.
You are statistically more likely to get shot in Chicago but more likely to die from a shooting in Baltimore with Philly sitting in somewhere in-between.
Despite the increase Los Angeles is really not too bad homicide wise, aside from downtown and it's immediate surroundings like Macarthur Park, South LA.
A large percentage of South LA is not so bad homicide wise with it being concentrated to a few specific neighborhoods. The hoods that mainly still have active gangs. If you compare that to Southside Chicago, they have more streets, blocks with more homicides.
Violent crime is a different story though, the LAPD 77th st. division average 2,000 violent crimes per 100k a year in their patrol coverage.
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