City Murder Rates - Page 100

SIGSEGV · #**1981** Posted **Jan 26, 2019, 4:50 PM**

If we stayed under Baltimore in raw number that might help Chicago's image...

Ex-Ithacan · #**1982** Posted **Jan 27, 2019, 11:03 PM**

DC is now at 18 after 5 more murders this weekend (including a triple homicide).

lextown · #**1983** Posted **Jan 29, 2019, 1:48 AM**

Charlotte NC is at 11.

Indianapolis IN Is at 9.

ocman · #**1984** Posted **Jan 29, 2019, 5:28 AM**

Crime is down in every major category in LA.

After an uptick in 2017, crime is down again for 2018.

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Crime dropped in Los Angeles in every major category in the city in 2018, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Monday.
Homicides were down 8.2 percent, violent crime was down 4.5 percent and property crime was down 1.8 percent. Homicides totaled 259, down from 282 in 2017.

Garcetti, joined by Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore and Police Commission President Steve Soborff, credited an increase in patrol hours and an expansion of an anti-gang initiative called GRYD as key reasons for the reductions.

"This was the second-lowest number of homicides that we've had in over 50 years, and when you compare to how it looked in 1992, a year of turbulence and unrest here, it's pretty remarkable. Violent crime is down 67 percent since then," Garcetti said, referring to the 1,092 homicides recorded in 1992.

Steely Dan · #**1985** Posted **Feb 1, 2019, 4:59 PM**

For chicago, through the end of january, total homicides:

2017: 57
2018: 42
2019: 22

Drops of 61% and 48%, respectively.

that's (sadly) the best january we've had since 2010.

iheartthed · #**1986** Posted **Feb 1, 2019, 5:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

For chicago, through the end of january, total homicides:

2017: 57
2018: 42
2019: 22

Drops of 61% and 48%, respectively.

that's (sadly) the best january we've had since 2010.

I wonder how the weather affected it. Wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of Midwest and Northeast cities come in dramatically lower for January.

Vlajos · #**1987** Posted **Feb 1, 2019, 5:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by iheartthed

I wonder how the weather affected it. Wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of Midwest and Northeast cities come in dramatically lower for January.

Most of January was warmer than average. It was just the last two days that were crazy cold.

Steely Dan · #**1988** Posted **Feb 1, 2019, 5:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by iheartthed

I wonder how the weather affected it. Wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of Midwest and Northeast cities come in dramatically lower for January.

this week's cold snap almost certainly tamped things down a bit, but the first 3 weeks of january we're actually pretty damn mild around here (by chicago standards).

iheartthed · #**1989** Posted **Feb 1, 2019, 5:23 PM**

True, those couple brushes with the vortex stood out in my mind versus all the above average days. It was well above average here too.

LMich · #**1990** Posted **Feb 1, 2019, 6:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by iheartthed

I wonder how the weather affected it. Wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of Midwest and Northeast cities come in dramatically lower for January.

Detroit's crime viewer is showing 10 homicide incidents for January, and I think each was just one homicide per incident for the month. I'm never sure, though, how much the tool lags. Anyway, that's down from 20 in January of last year. I've tried using the Detroit Data Portal, which I've used to compare against the Crime Viewer, but it seems that it's even less helpful now in tracking homicides. I think they may have taken homicides out of the Data Portal so now the Crime View is the only way to check them.

Gresto · #**1991** Posted **Feb 1, 2019, 9:47 PM**

Toronto had 5 murders in January, which isn't a bad start to the year after a record-breaking 2018.

KevinFromTexas · #**1992** Posted **Feb 2, 2019, 8:09 PM**

Austin murders 2019. Still only one murder in the city limits and 5 in the suburbs.

1 dead - http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local...rtment-complex - 1/20

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-1 - 1/20

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20190...-park-shooting - 1/26

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-2 - 1/26

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20190...liamson-county - 2/1

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20190...emplate=ampart - 2/13

Pending

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20190...-travis-county - 2/2

ilcapo · #**1993** Posted **Feb 4, 2019, 5:25 PM**

May i ask how the US-stats are available so easy and fast? They seem to be presented on a weekly basis in New York for example.

I feel like most suspected homicides in Europe are not presented until it has been investigated and they are sure its a homicide/murder.

Surely alot of these US-murders must turn out to be non-murders/unintentional/suicides at the end of the year, no? Or are they only presenting the obvious ones, such as stabbings and shootings?

LouisVanDerWright · #**1994** Posted **Feb 4, 2019, 5:28 PM**

Because in the US it's like "This guy got shot and died. Homicide" unless there is a reason to believe it was self defense, it was a homicide. It's not like "this guy has flesh wounds, did someone stab him? If so was it a fight or self defense". It's pretty obvious when someone gets shot and killed here whether it was self defense or murder.

ilcapo · #**1995** Posted **Feb 4, 2019, 7:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

Because in the US it's like "This guy got shot and died. Homicide" unless there is a reason to believe it was self defense, it was a homicide. It's not like "this guy has flesh wounds, did someone stab him? If so was it a fight or self defense". It's pretty obvious when someone gets shot and killed here whether it was self defense or murder.

Sure i get it.

But sometimes it can be self-inflicted, i e somebody shoots themselves. Or somebody trips while drunk and hit their head. Or somebody falls from a balcony.

Would cases where intentional homicide can not be excluded, be a part of the statistics at first? Or would they be added at the end of the year if it turns out that its a murder?

The police in my country does not present statistics of actual murders for the previous year until 3 month in to the year after, to be sure to not report faulty information.

Steely Dan · #**1996** Posted **Feb 4, 2019, 9:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by ilcapo

Surely alot of these US-murders must turn out to be non-murders/unintentional/suicides at the end of the year, no?

in the case of chicago, not really.

when someone shoots or stabs someone else and there's a corpse with the bullet holes or stab wounds to prove it, you don't need sherlock holmes to determine that a homicide has occurred.

the stats i post for chicago are all total homicides: one human taking the life of another. the numbers do not differentiate between intentional, unintentional, or self-defense.

i suppose its possible that a couple suicides might slip into those stats, but when you're dealing with a city with hundreds of homicides each year, those would amount to little more than a rounding error.

Jonesy55 · #**1997** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 12:29 PM**

Annual homicides in England and Wales (total population around 59 million) since 2008 broken down by method of killing.

ilcapo · #**1998** Posted **Feb 9, 2019, 9:23 AM**

Stockholm, Sweden is at 7 or 8.
6 or 7 out of those have taken place in the Metro area (pop 2.3 mil) and only 1 in the city proper (pop 750 000).

3 shootings, 3 stabbings. Two unknown.

ilcapo · #**1999** Posted **Feb 9, 2019, 12:03 PM**

28 people were killed in Norway 2018. (Pop 5.2 mil).

13 males.
10 women.
5 children.

4 out of these 28 involved some kind of firearm.

Oslo police-district (pop 840.000) had 7 recorded murders.

MonkeyRonin · #**2000** Posted **Feb 9, 2019, 5:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by ilcapo

Stockholm, Sweden is at 7 or 8.
6 or 7 out of those have taken place in the Metro area (pop 2.3 mil) and only 1 in the city proper (pop 750 000).

That sounds like it's unusually high for Stockholm?