City Murder Rates - Page 206

nito · #**4101** Posted **Feb 2, 2024, 4:11 PM**

London
Population 9mn+
2023 Total: 110 homicides

Gresto · #**4102** Posted **Feb 2, 2024, 7:38 PM**

3 homicides in Toronto so far this year.

montréaliste · #**4103** Posted **Feb 3, 2024, 4:19 AM**

4 in Montreal

subterranean · #**4104** Posted **Feb 3, 2024, 5:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by nito

London
Population 9mn+
2023 Total: 110 homicides

60 by soccer balls

Velvet_Highground · #**4105** Posted **Feb 3, 2024, 6:45 PM**

Soccer Balls, vicious sons of bitches they are.

Needs highlighting
Buffalo 14.01 +/- 2.24 (2022: 25.51 +/- 3.03 ; -45.1%)

jtown,man · #**4106** Posted **Feb 5, 2024, 9:03 PM**

Memphis had 27 murders in January, up from 21 last year.

Memphis has approximately 600k residents.

Yuri · #**4107** Posted **Feb 6, 2024, 3:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by jtown,man

Memphis had 27 murders in January, up from 21 last year.

Memphis has approximately 600k residents.

Good Lord! That's 324 annualized. Not far away from São Paulo's 400s, a city 20x more populated in a country with the highest number of absolute murders for the past three decades. And Memphis is a city with large suburbans areas inside city proper.

Is it the same story? Gangs, poor young men from ghettos?

Cashville · #**4108** Posted **Feb 6, 2024, 3:33 PM**

Memphis set a record last year (which is saying something) with 397, hopefully they can avoid the spike they had last year, but not good to be ahead pace at this point.

Smuttynose1 · #**4109** Posted **Feb 22, 2024, 9:03 PM**

Some really promising year-to-date news out of several cities now that approximately 15% of the year is on the books (with a couple exceptions)!

Atlanta
YTD murders 2024: 16
YTD murders 2023: 12
Change +33%
Rate: 3.20 per 100K

Boston
YTD murders 2024: 1
YTD murders 2023: 7
Change -85%
Rate: 0.15 per 100K

Chicago
YTD murders 2024: 49
YTD murders 2023: 66
Change: -26%
Rate: 1.78 per 100K

Los Angeles
YTD murders 2024: 38
YTD murders 2023: 38
Change: No change
Rate: 0.97 per 100K

Minneapolis
YTD murders 2024: 8
YTD murders 2023: 11
Change: -27%
Rate: 1.86 per 100K

Milwaukee
YTD murders 2024: 16
YTD murders 2023: 19
Change: -16%
Rate: 2.77 per 100K

New York
YTD murders 2024: 42
YTD murders 2023: 55
Change: -24%
Rate: 0.48 per 100K

Philadelphia
YTD murders 2024: 43
YTD murders 2023: 63
Change: -32%
Rate: 2.68 per 100K

San Francisco
YTD murders 2024: 3
YTD murders 2023: 7
Change -57%
Rate: 0.34 per 100K

Washington, DC
YTD murders 2024: 22
YTD murders 2023: 29
Change: -24%
Rate: 3.19 per 100K

streetscaper · #**4110** Posted **Feb 23, 2024, 12:42 AM**

Nice!!

Steely Dan · #**4111** Posted **Feb 23, 2024, 12:52 AM**

The drops in northern cities like Chicago are also doubly noteworthy because we're having one of our warmest winters ever in recorded history.

Steely Dan · #**4112** Posted **Mar 1, 2024, 12:41 PM**

Despite having our warmest February ever on record, the downward trend in murders continued in Chicago.

Chicago homicides through February:

2024: 62
2023: 85
2022: 92
2021: 94

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Down 27% from last year.

And down 34% from 2021 .

SIGSEGV · #**4113** Posted **Mar 1, 2024, 1:47 PM**

And February was longer too!

photoLith · #**4114** Posted **Mar 1, 2024, 5:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Steely Dan

Despite having our warmest February ever on record, the downward trend in murders continued in Chicago.

Chicago homicides through February:

2024: 62
2023: 85
2022: 92
2021: 94

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Down 27% from last year.

And down 34% from 2021 .

The trend for homicide rates literally make no sense. I mean, a possible explanation is that the police didn't care to patrol those neighborhoods after the George Floyd debacle and therefor they killed each other at a higher rate than normal. But I can't imagine that the police are more hardcore in Chicago now than they were in 2021. Also, inflation is through the roof so you would think that murder rates would be higher as people are more stressed over the cost of everything, especially the poor obviously. It would be nice to see a non politically correct rational explanation.

Theres a whole season of the wire dedicated to murder rates in I think the 3rd season. The city didn't report all of the murders to make the mayors office look better. I wonder how much of that happens in places like Chicago.

Steely Dan · #**4115** Posted **Mar 1, 2024, 5:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by photoLith

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Theres a whole season of the wire dedicated to murder rates in I think the 3rd season. The city didn't report all of the murders to make the mayors office look better. I wonder how much of that happens in places like Chicago.

My stats are pulled from the Sun-Times.

They have zero interest in making the mayor "look good".

photoLith · #**4116** Posted **Mar 1, 2024, 5:36 PM**

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Thats fine, I wasn't saying they were cooking the numbers. But I would love to read a paper on why murder trends are lower now.

moorhosj1 · #**4117** Posted **Mar 1, 2024, 6:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by photoLith

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Thats fine, I wasn't saying they were cooking the numbers. But I would love to read a paper on why murder trends are lower now.

I think it's more about it coming back down to 2010-2020 levels. The real question is, why did it spike so much in 2021-2023?

Steely Dan · #**4118** Posted **Mar 1, 2024, 6:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by moorhosj1

I think it's more about it coming back down to 2010-2020 levels. The real question is, why did it spike so much in 2021-2023?

Stop making sense.

Conspiracy theories are way more fun!!

iheartthed · #**4119** Posted **Mar 1, 2024, 6:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by photoLith

The trend for homicide rates literally make no sense. I mean, a possible explanation is that the police didn't care to patrol those neighborhoods after the George Floyd debacle and therefor they killed each other at a higher rate than normal. But I can't imagine that the police are more hardcore in Chicago now than they were in 2021. Also, inflation is through the roof so you would think that murder rates would be higher as people are more stressed over the cost of everything, especially the poor obviously. It would be nice to see a non politically correct rational explanation.

Theres a whole season of the wire dedicated to murder rates in I think the 3rd season. The city didn't report all of the murders to make the mayors office look better. I wonder how much of that happens in places like Chicago.

George Floyd wasn't the only thing that happened in 2020. There are other good reasons why the murder rate would have rose besides accusing cops of not doing their jobs. Here are a couple other plausible reasons:

Domestic violence- a large percentage of murders are domestic violence and people were spending far more time at home starting in March 2020
Court system backlog- The courts were disrupted by the pandemic. Everything from arraignments to trials were delayed because of the shutdown, and that inevitably led to some criminals being on the street longer than they otherwise would have been.

Chisouthside · #**4120** Posted **Mar 1, 2024, 7:00 PM**

Got a friend that used to work at u of c crime lab, now working directly for cpd data area. His simple opinion is that the pandemic disrupted alot of normal money making schemes and caused chaos which led to a spike in murders.