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Baltimore is 241. Double homicides 3 days ago. "Only" 13 so far in November, though.
I mean there were several months last year where it was having a homicide a day. Less crime begets less crime. Massive crime drops have far reaching positive trickle down effects.
Pre-Freddie Gray it was about 220-240 a year, so about 20/months. Per Suns tracker the lowest recently was 2011 with 197.
At current pace it should be around 260-270 this year. Definitely improvement from the 300+ but still not all that great.
City has to start somewhere. Slashing the homicide rate by 50% in one year is unrealistic.
Improve on improvements. Whatever is working to bring down the homicide/crime rate right now needs to be laser focused on, expanded and unilaterally backed and supported.
City has to start somewhere. Slashing the homicide rate by 50% in one year is unrealistic.
Improve on improvements. Whatever is working to bring down the homicide/crime rate right now needs to be laser focused on, expanded and unilaterally backed and supported.
Exactly. Incremental improvements can absolutely snowball.
Philadelphia instituted a pilot program that hyper-targeted high risk youth in the highest crime neighborhoods, dispatching trained professionals to discuss violence prevention one-on-one. There was also a recent "hug the block" program.
Both kind of common sense interventions, and the "tough on crime" crowd will sneer at these kinds of things, but it absolutely has shown incredibly promising initial results that were shown to reduce the likelihood of violent crime incidents by at least 50%.
Obviously, not every individual can be "saved" from unfortunate outcomes, but arguably most can. And all it takes is just treating very emotionally neglected young adults like human beings that someone cares about.
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