Which major US city would be most likely to pull off a 'Quebec City Miracle?' (murders, metro area)
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Quebec City, with city population of 491,000, went through all of 2007 without a single murder, and only eight attempted murders, leading some to call this the "Quebec City miracle."
Which major US city would be most likely to pull off a similar feat?
Note that Quebec City is not a suburb; it is the central city of its metro area, and makes up about 68% of the total population of that area.
Maybe not 0 murders, but San Diego with 1.35 million only had 41 in 2007... that's damn impressive... about half the national average. Around 3 homicides for every 100,000 people.
I doubt any actually city in the US over 300k would be able to achieve that. It would be great if we could though.
As said, maybe Des Moines could, but the city is less than 1/2 the size of Quebec City.
Toledo, Ohio has a population of around 300k and only had 12 murders in 2007 I believe, that's about as good as you're gonna get for a city that large or any larger in the US. And Toledo normally averages around 28 per year so that was well below average.
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