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Yeah, DC now back to running 34 percent above last year. Thought things might have been improving slightly as the year ends..but nope. DC looks on track for its deadliest year since '97.
I'm trying to piece together where Cleveland stands since I haven't seen any local media report on YTD in months.
Someone on here posted the city was at 119 through July 25. Though there is a cleveland.com article from September that had the city at 112 through August.
I went through the cleveland.com crime archives starting in August and this is what I found (hardly cement):
I didn't include some that were unclear (a couple bodies found in the Cuyahoga, a couple hit and runs, a couple of ODs where they charged the sellers with the deaths)
If the 119 was the number through July (would have actually been 120 because there was a shooting death at the end of July), that would put the total to date at 146 with I'm sure some cases pending and some up in the air incidents.
If the 112 through August was (closer to) the actual number, then the total would be around 139, with again some pending/up in the air incidents.
Either way, the city (outside a couple week period in October) has been way down for now what is a close to five-month period.
Also interesting is that per the cleveland.com article that said the city was at 112 through August, it also said the Cuyahoga suburbs were at 33 at that same time.
Since then, I counted 21 for the city and 17 for the suburbs (and just as many questionable incidents). Interesting that since the US Marshals, Highway Patrol and local officers cracked down on the city (starting in August) that the amount of clear shooting deaths shifted toward the eastern suburbs. Seems like there was a shift in where shop was set up (from the eastside of the city to a couple of "troubled" eastern suburbs due to the heat).
And I say eastern because there has only been 3 homicides on the west side of the city since August (all in the same Stockyards/Brooklyn Centre neighborhood) and only 1 suburban west side homicide (guy killed somebody, set a home on fire and was shot to death by police ... so maybe two if the police shooting counts).
Even with that, overall homicides in Cuyahoga County have been way down since July. ... from roughly an average of 20 to 7.
Countywide, that would be roughly 90 over the course of a year which isn't great but not that bad for a county of more than 1.2 million.
For the city, would be around 64 which is probably unsustainable but I think would be close to some of the years in the late 90s.
Last edited by ClevelandBrown; 12-12-2023 at 05:06 PM..
Was hoping to see this year under 400, but will likely end the year around 405-410. Still a significant reduction (-19%) from last year (and shooting incidents/victims have declined even more).
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