City/Metro Homicides of 2022 (state, map, crime, compared)

[dtyfygiu]

Houston update?

[woxyroxme]

Dayton now at 5.

[dtyfygiu]

Okay so I got an update for the end of January


Chicago - 61


Houston - 57


Philly - 50


New York - 35


LA - 28


Chicago back in the lead unfortunately but thats nothing new....Houston is going CRAZY this year, wtf is going on? Per capita, Houston is higher than Chicago.



And like someone said, Chicago is leading in raw numbers, but per capita, New Orleans seems like its the current murder capital. 30 murders with less than 85% of the population of Chicago, yikes...


https://www.click2houston.com/news/i...ocket-in-2022/

[MPK21]

Mother Nature intervened to tamp down Philly's homicide madness; thank you for a couple Nor'easters and brutally cold weather for a weekend or 2 in January. Otherwise, Philly would be 60+ to date.

Shootings-homicides have picked-up again on pace pre-winter storm weather though.

[MrDee12345]

Boston is still at 2 for the year. Hope the city can keep the numbers low for the year.

https://www.universalhub.com/crime/murder/2022

[dtyfygiu]

^Boston has always been an incredibly safe city. Wonder how it does it...maybe the high ass COL pushed all the criminals out lol

[MrDee12345]

Originally Posted by dtyfygiu

^Boston has always been an incredibly safe city. Wonder how it does it...maybe the high ass COL pushed all the criminals out lol

And if you include the entire MSA the numbers go down significantly.

Sure, Boston is expensive, but it still has a fair number of poor areas and housing projects.

But it should also be noted that with NYC's rise in murders in 2021, it still had a lower murder rate than Boston. I wrote this in the 2021 thread:

I may have been wrong about Boston's total murders. According to this article, Boston only had 39 murders as of Dec 20:

https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/12/23...-massachusetts

And it doesn't seem like there were any more murders after the 20th in 2021, at least according to Universal Hub: https://www.universalhub.com/crime/murder/2021

So if that's correct, that means that Boston's murder rate was 5.8/100,000 if we use the 2020 census to calculate our rate. That makes Boston slightly more dangerous than NYC (5.5/100,000), but below the national average for 2020, which was 6.6/100,000.

For the entire state of Massachusetts? If we use the numbers up to Dec 20 (I'm sure there might have been one or two murders somewhere in the state after that and before the new year), we have 148 murders. The rate for the entire state is 2.1/100,000

In a sad point of comparison, Jackson MS (population 160,000) had two more murders than the entire state of Massachusetts (population approx 7 million)

[SEAandATL]

Originally Posted by dtyfygiu

^Boston has always been an incredibly safe city. Wonder how it does it...maybe the high ass COL pushed all the criminals out lol

That's how San Diego does it. The entire city is like an upscale suburban community. Btw I wouldn't be surprised if SD still has 0 for the year, as I haven't seen any updates from there.

[OxnardNative]

Originally Posted by SEAandATL

That's how San Diego does it. The entire city is like an upscale suburban community. Btw I wouldn't be surprised if SD still has 0 for the year, as I haven't seen any updates from there.

San Diego has 2 according to the crime map I looked up. One on New Years day and another on the last day of January.

[CityLife!]

Chicago is up to 66 now. We had four homicides so far TODAY which includes a 15 year old shot and killed and a 16 year old shot & killed in two separate shootings.

What a sad state we’re in.