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Is that a lot for St Louis? Just found Detroit, it's not 40....it's 99. I was hoping maybe the city was turning around its crime this year.
I saw elsewhere that Portland was at 12 or 13 for the year. I think the 6 above was just for February and March, nothing yet reported for April or May per that site.
New York City is at 1.3/100,000
Los Angeles is at 2.4/100,000
San Francisco is at 2.4/100,000
Chicago is at 5.2/100,000
Philadelphia is at 5.8/100,000
Washington DC is at 6.7/100,000
Milwaukee is at 9.5/100,000 (up a LOT this year)
Detroit is at 14.2/100,000
Baltimore would be at 15.4/100,000
New Orleans is at 18.5/100,000
Los Angeles is at 20.0/100,000
6 more homicides than last year which was a year which was the lowest number of homicides in 50 years isn't a lack of progress. If anything, it means that 2014 wasn't a fluke year and crime is actually going down.
In 2013, Detroit was up to 123 by this time of the year. 2012 it was already up to 139. Besides that, every other category of crime has gone down by double digit percentage. Probably still high for the city's current population size, but going down nonetheless.
In the back of my mind I thought the very cold winter had something to do with the impressive numbers last year but hoping I was wrong. Now I'm thinking I was for the most part wrong and that's a good thing. Only 6 higher than the 50 year record and the winter was pretty average this year? Looking at your data from 2012 and 2013 and comparing it to now, I think better times are ahead. Only time will tell.
Is that a lot for St Louis? Just found Detroit, it's not 40....it's 99. I was hoping maybe the city was turning around its crime this year.
I saw elsewhere that Portland was at 12 or 13 for the year. I think the 6 above was just for February and March, nothing yet reported for April or May per that site.
New York City is at 1.3/100,000
Los Angeles is at 2.4/100,000
San Francisco is at 2.4/100,000
Chicago is at 5.2/100,000
Philadelphia is at 5.8/100,000
Washington DC is at 6.7/100,000
Milwaukee is at 9.5/100,000 (up a LOT this year)
Detroit is at 14.2/100,000
Baltimore would be at 15.4/100,000
New Orleans is at 18.5/100,000
Los Angeles is at 20.0/100,000
Oh my god! Why are American cities so violent??
My city of 620k residents has a murder rate of 1,2 and Finland was supposed to be violent compared to the rest of West...
That being said, some cities in the US are well above the national average for homicides, but we don't really know why. It's not drugs though. It looks like the leading cause right now are arguments, believe it or not: FBI — Expanded Homicide Data Table 12
And I guess while all homicides are terrible, you have to make sure and keep it in context a bit or people freak out.
I mean Chicago's rate is 15/100,000, but that means that 0.015% of the population is murdered each year. Deaths are terrible, but your chances are still one-hundredth of one percent.
The USA has 0.004% of people murdered each year and Finland has 0.001%. If it were anything other than human lives being lost statistically people would just say they're the same.
And I guess while all homicides are terrible, you have to make sure and keep it in context a bit or people freak out.
I mean Chicago's rate is 15/100,000, but that means that 0.015% of the population is murdered each year. Deaths are terrible, but your chances are still one-hundredth of one percent.
The USA has 0.004% of people murdered each year and Finland has 0.001%. If it were anything other than human lives being lost statistically people would just say they're the same.
Um... no. That is 4x the rate. That is a huge statistical difference.
I'm not familiar with Milwaukee, but a friend of a friend posted the article on FB. What's going on there?
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I was hoping maybe the city was turning around its crime this year.
