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Preliminary numbers for 2016, for all cities that anchor or co-anchor a metro of 1 million plus. Some notable cities missing that I couldn't find data on: Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Tampa, Columbus, Sacramento, Newark, San Bernardino, Riverside, Fort Worth, Grand Rapids, Tucson, and Honolulu...
Here's the rundown for '16:
St. Louis 184/58.23
Baltimore 318/51.13
Birmingham 104/49.06
New Orleans 176/45.13
Detroit 291/42.98
Cleveland 135/34.79
Memphis 226/34.45
Richmond 66/30.00
Chicago 762/28.00
Kansas City 125/26.32
Milwaukee 153/25.50
Rochester 62/24.29
Atlanta 105/22.63
Oakland 87/20.76
Cincinnati 62/20.74
Washington 136/20.24
Tulsa 81/20.05
Pittsburgh 59/19.41
Louisville 117/19.02
Norfolk 46/18.70
Philadelphia 277/17.68
Indianapolis 150/17.58
Buffalo 45/17.44
Jacksonville 119/13.71
Orlando 37/13.65* (sans Pulse massacre which could be defined as an act of terror like 9/11, or OKC '95 bombing)
Dallas 168/12.92
Nashville 83/12.67
Oklahoma City 76/12.04
Hartford 14/11.29
San Antonio 151/10.27
Denver 58/8.49
Charlotte 67/8.10
Las Vegas 166/7.85
Los Angeles 295/7.43
Boston 47/7.05
San Francisco 56/6.47
Providence 10/5.59
Salt Lake City 10/5.18
Raleigh 22/4.88
San Jose 49/4.77
Austin 41/4.40
New York 334/3.91
San Diego 50/3.58
Portland 20/3.16
Seattle 17/2.49
Preliminary numbers for 2016, for all cities that anchor or co-anchor a metro of 1 million plus. Some notable cities missing that I couldn't find data on: Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Tampa, Columbus, Sacramento, Newark, San Bernardino, Riverside, Fort Worth, Grand Rapids, Tucson, and Honolulu...
Here's the rundown for '16:
St. Louis 184/58.23
Baltimore 318/51.13
Birmingham 104/49.06
New Orleans 176/45.13
Detroit 291/42.98
Cleveland 135/34.79
Memphis 226/34.45
Richmond 66/30.00
Chicago 762/28.00
Kansas City 125/26.32
Milwaukee 153/25.50
Rochester 62/24.29
Atlanta 105/22.63
Oakland 87/20.76
Cincinnati 62/20.74
Washington 136/20.24
Tulsa 81/20.05
Pittsburgh 59/19.41
Louisville 117/19.02
Norfolk 46/18.70
Philadelphia 277/17.68
Indianapolis 150/17.58
Buffalo 45/17.44
Jacksonville 119/13.71
Orlando 37/13.65* (sans Pulse massacre which could be defined as an act of terror like 9/11, or OKC '95 bombing)
Dallas 168/12.92
Nashville 83/12.67
Oklahoma City 76/12.04
Hartford 14/11.29
San Antonio 151/10.27
Denver 58/8.49
Charlotte 67/8.10
Las Vegas 166/7.85
Los Angeles 295/7.43
Boston 47/7.05
San Francisco 56/6.47
Providence 10/5.59
Salt Lake City 10/5.18
Raleigh 22/4.88
San Jose 49/4.77
Austin 41/4.40
New York 334/3.91
San Diego 50/3.58
Portland 20/3.16
Seattle 17/2.49
According to Chicago homicide tracker it's officially 777, anything else is unofficial.
No, the official results used for comparison purposes and used by the FBI is 762. There are a lot of unofficial sites like heyjackass that people use that are always higher as they include things like self defense killings, justified police shootings and unintended traffic deaths. Those aren't included per FBI stats.
I don't like how there are bad areas all around the place and not just in the South. For example if you look at the map, the area West and North of Garfield Park has a homicide density just as high or even higher than the South. Then there are scattered homicides all around the city, only Lincoln Park seems safe overall.
I would say the areas of the west side are worse than the bad areas on the south side. As I said around 75% of murders happen in areas with 25% of the population because the areas with the highest number of killings have the lowest population densities for the most part. My neighborhood of Lakeview has around 100,000 residents and had one murder this year. Two old men who had been fighting for years got into a tussle with each other and one killed the other. Sad and unfortunate, but didn't really terrorize the neighborhood like what happens on the south and west sides where it's kids running around with guns shooting. I've never felt unsafe in my 15 living from the south loop up through downtown and Lincoln park and lakeview. I also loved Logan square when I lived there! Beautiful neighborhood!
Moderator cut: link removed, linking to competitor sites is not okEast St. Louis seems to be the winner(or loser depending how you look at it) with a murder rate of 71 per 100.000 residents.
Moderator cut: link removed, linking to competitor sites is not okEast St. Louis seems to be the winner(or loser depending how you look at it) with a murder rate of 71 per 100.000 residents.
Maybe not. Looks like Chester, PA may be at a rate of 76 per 100,000 residents in 2016. Camden, NJ looks like it may be at 72 per 100,000 residents in 2016.
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