Plano's remarkably low homicide rate

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by DtX4415

Murder highest rate in the 1980's, overall violent crime the 1990's, same trend seen on the national level.


Plano Police Dept, Texas - Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter - Population
2010 - 4 - 259,841
2011 - 5 - 265,309
2012 - 1 - 273,816
2013 - 3 - 275,795
2014 - 4 - 277,822
2015 - 4 - 282,96
2016 - 5 - 288,242
2017 - 15 - 290,413
2018 - 5 - 289,897
2019 - 3 - 291,611

Oh yea. We've had some spirited discussions about past murder/homicide rates in the past.

[NigerianNightmare]

It’s really good, but as other say suburbs have a unique advantage since they generally have less income diversity. I’m assuming Plano, Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale etcetera, will dominate the list of cities over 200,000 until a small city gets the majority of its city limits gentrified. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azc...amp/4259353002

Both Phoenix and Dallas suburbs have large boundaries generally so as a result I’m sure in a few years as more of these suburbs cross 200,000 they’ll dominate the bottom of the list of Homicides.

Other cities like SF and LA have suburbs that are big but not as big as Phoenix and Dallas because they were built out in a slightly earlier era and as a result LA, Miami/Florida and SF have a turn of retirement communities and suburban towns that are all on the cusp of 200,000, I.e several dozen over 100,000 but very few over 200,000 unlike Phoenix and Dallas and as these cities cross 200,000 they’ll likely make these lists as well.

[Little Toe]

Originally Posted by Walter Benjamin

This story ranks U.S. cities over 200,000 people by their reported homicide rate in 2020 so far.

story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/u...on-debate.html

data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing


At the very bottom of the list is Plano, with a rate of 0.5 per 100,000 people. (One homicide in 2019, and one homicide so far in 2020).


For comparison, selected cities ranked by homicides per 100K people in 2020:

0.5 Plano
5.0 Austin
7.0 Arlington
7.7 Fort Worth
8.1 OKC
9.1 San Antonio
11.6 Lubbock
16.2 Dallas
20.0 Tulsa
46.4 New Orleans
47.6 Detroit
55.8 Baltimore
90.4 St. Louis


no data? El Paso

Indeed, the city of Plano stands to be a huge winner as a result of all the political poison falling out from attacks on the nation's city cores.