City Murder Rates

[TimCity2000]

Birmingham is at 14

[lextown]

Newark NJ is at 18.

Memphis TN is at 36.

Baltimore MD is at 34.

[Flyers2001]

As of 2/23/16: Philadelphia 34

2015 - 37
2014 - 44
2013 - 29

*2013 ended with 246, the lowest in 10+ years.

Not a very good week as it jumped 9.

[mousquet]

I can't even remember the figure I heard of for 2015. It's usually low by American standards, but was abnormally high in 2015 here because of the 130 people killed on the nov. 13 attack. Was that a friday 13? Frankly, only the stupid superstitious radical Muslims still think it's either good or bad luck.

Lots of (sometimes violent) muggings and dirty stinky pickpockets here, because of local poverty, but they hardly go up to murdering, thankfully.

[summersm343]

Originally Posted by Flyers2001

As of 2/23/16: Philadelphia 34

2015 - 37
2014 - 44
2013 - 29

*2013 ended with 246, the lowest in 10+ years.

Not a very good week as it jumped 9.

246 was the lowest in 50+ years.

[tablemtn]

Portland has 1 murder so far after a gang-related shooting in the city's inner-northeast:

34-year-old Portland man in custody on murder allegation in NE Portland shooting

[Emprise du Lion]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan

Chicago needs to get this out of control before it spirals back to what it was in the 90s... 2 homicides a day is ridiculous.

86 homicides according to the tribune counter... 57 in January 29 in Feb so far

Welcome to the triple digits.

Chicago - 100
http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/homicides

Although maybe this will help.
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2016...cop-complaints

[mrnyc]

nyc murders thru 2/21/16

2016: 36
2015: 52
%chg: -30.8%

[Darkoshvilli]

NY and Chicago are like two different worlds right now.

[Citylover94]

Boston Ma is at 4 murders this year.

[lextown]

Lexington KY is at 6. Up from 2 last year.

Louisville KY is at 13. Down from 20 last year.

[tablemtn]

Portland has two murders after a shooting at a residence in the southeast part of the city:

Man shot to death in Lents home, police investigate his death as homicide

[Gresto]

Toronto up to 15 this year. February had half as many as January, but it's still an uncommonly bad start.

[Tosin007]

[QUOTE=Oliver May;7321806]

Originally Posted by Tosin007

Ya I agree with you that was a pretty interesting read, wow the Gun culture is just so different in the U.S. I'd say Realistically few people own Guns up here in Canada. & The Majority of People that do are either law enforcement or Criminals (The small percentage of them anyways). Most Canadian Gun owners have long Guns I think. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong).

I think that this is factually wrong. Lots of Canadians own guns. You just probably don't know them. I know of lots of hunters around the Québec City area. In Calgary, it is the same. The difference is that Canadians don't own handguns (very much) and really do use guns for hunting.

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/f.../index-eng.htm

For the Record, Québec City and Levis are both at 0 murders for 2016 (as of Feb. 1).

Yeah I guess thats true but we still have way less Crime than the US so thats good Yay for Canada!

[Flyers2001]

As of 3/1/16: Philadelphia 35

2015 - 40
2014 - 45
2013 - 32

*2013 ended with 246, the lowest in 50*+ years.

[tablemtn]

El Salvador's record-high murder rate is actually still increasing, with 1,380 murders reported in 2016 by February 29:

Fin de semana dejó 50 homicidios y van 1,380 este año

Weekends are regularly seeing 50+ murders. At this pace, the country would end up with a murder rate of around 135 per 100,000.

[Darkoshvilli]

^Ho Lee Fuk

[HurricaneHugo]

San Diego finished 2015 with 37 murders.

http://www.sandiego.gov/police/pdf/2...umneighbor.pdf

[mrnyc]

cleveland

10 murders as of 1/25/16

[softee]

Toronto at 16 now.