Originally Posted by Crawford (Post 10172745)

Basically all major crimes in NYC are down this year relative to 2023. On public transit too.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p...-february-2024

Despite the alt-right rhetoric, NYC and the MTA are on-course to have one of the lowest crime years in recorded history. It is amazing how social media and alt news sources have completely scrambled reality, on the economy, immigration, crime, Ukraine and a host of topics. It's like we're back in the Dark Ages.

Originally Posted by ilcapo (Post 10115505)

After a very calm November & December, this is what we ended up with. Not bad. There might be a couple more added, but it wont change the rates by much.

Sweden
Estimated total (Rate) <Deadly Shootings>
2021: 113 (1.1) <63>
2022: 118 (1.1) <45>
2023: 115 (1.1) <53>

Stockholm Metro
2021: 41 (1.7)
2022: 39 (1.6) <31>
2023: 42 (1,7) <26>

- Within City limits/Municipality
2021: 22 (2.2)
2022: 17 (1.7) <11>
2023: 18 (1.8) <13>

Gothenburg/Göteborg Municipality
2021: 9 (1.5)
2022: 7 (1.2) <4>
2023: 10 (1.7) <3>

Malmo/Malmö Municipality
2021: 5 (1.4)
2022: 11 (3.1) <5>
2023: 4 (1.1) <1>

Originally Posted by Smuttynose1 (Post 10173015)

Really impressive broad-based progress on this across the country. The following cities aren’t cherry-picked, they just tend to be the ones where this information is most accessible and up to date:

Boston
2023 YTD: 11
2024 YTD: 2
Change: -82%

Chicago
2023 YTD: 108
2024 YTD: 95
Change: -12%

Dallas
2023 YTD: 69
2024 YTD: 48
Change: -30%

Kansas City, MO
2023 YTD: 36
2024 YTD: 28
Change: -22%

Milwaukee
2023 YTD: 32
2024 YTD: 23
Change: -28%

Minneapolis
2023 YTD: 13
2024 YTD: 11
Change: -15%

New York City
2023 YTD: 90
2024 YTD: 74
Change: -18%

Philadelphia
2023 YTD: 98
2024 YTD: 63
Change: -36%

San Francisco
2023 YTD: 10
2024 YTD: 6
Change: -40%

Washington, DC
2023 YTD: 52
2024 YTD: 35
Change: -33%

Originally Posted by jtown,man (Post 10173584)

Now compare them to 2019 numbers.

Originally Posted by ilcapo (Post 10173378)

I just saw someone used the metric "Murders per square mile" rather than the usual per capita population metric. The point was to show that their city has a high number of murders per 100.000 pop, but since the city was so sprawly it didn't really affect the population the same way as it would in an urban environment.

Is there a point to this way of reasoning?

Originally Posted by Crawford (Post 10173676)

2023 ended up with lower overall violent crime than 2019, so most of these numbers would be a lot better in 2023 than in 2019.

Also, why compare to 2019? Why not 1819? Any way you slice it, the fact is that violent crime in the U.S. is plummeting, while a prevailing narrative claims the opposite. In the last 50 years, the U.S. hasn't been safer than the present.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...pinion/676365/

Originally Posted by mrnyc (Post 10173864)

cleveland

good news in the cleve —

most crime way down as of 3/27/24

homicides

2023 = 32
2024 = 19
% chg = -40%

https://www.cleveland19.com/2024/03/...ing-city-data/

Originally Posted by jtown,man (Post 10173584)

Now compare them to 2019 numbers.

Originally Posted by mja (Post 10185673)

Philly is down something like 13% from 2019.