City Murder Rates

[KevinFromTexas]

1 dead - Police: Mom's boyfriend charged in toddler's death - 10/18

Pending

1 dead - Police find body near 'Round Rock' monument - 10/20

2016 Austin Murders

| Austin 26 | Travis Co. 33 | Bastrop Co. 6 | Caldwell Co. 1 | Hays Co. 5 | Williamson Co. 0 | Metro 45 |

Metro totals:
Shooting - 27
Stabbing - 3
Strangled - 2
Suffocation - 0
Throwing (of child) - 0
Beating - 1
Vehicular - 0
Blunt force trauma - 2
Unlisted cause + 1 (6/27), + 1 (7/16) , + 1 (7/21), + 1 (8/1), + 1 (8/11), +1 (9/8) + 2 (9/27)

Austin totals:
Downtown - 1
Central Austin - 1
East Austin - 10
North Austin - 9
Northeast Austin - 0
Northwest Austin - 2
South Austin - 0
Southeast Austin - 2
Southwest Austin - 0
West Austin - 0

Victims
Male - 27
Female - 12
Unlisted - + 1 (7/23), + 4 (9/8)

| Jan 1 | Feb 1 | Mar 1 | Apr 3 | May 4 | Jun 6 | Jul 9 | Aug 6 | Sep 11 | Oct 3 | Nov 0 | Dec 0 |

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| Mon 7 | Tue 7 | Wed 1 | Thur 7 | Fri 7 | Sat 10 | Sun 6 |

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Murder cases

1 dead - Police seeking gunman after fatal shooting overnight in North Austin - 1/22

1 dead - San Marcos police charge roommate in shooting death of 20-year-old - 2/5

1 dead - Fatal car accident in East Austin investigated as homicide - 3/1

1 dead - Police identify 18-year-old killed in Kyle drive-by shooting - 4/2

1 dead - UT police investigating death of woman found on campus as homicide - 4/5

1 dead - Suspect named in killing of 'Junior the Wendy’s Guy’ - 4/11

1 dead - Officials: One dead, 3 injured in North Austin shooting - 5/8

1 dead - Police seeking murder suspect after deadly North Austin shooting - 5/14

1 dead - Police: Fatal shooting at H-E-B was during drug deal gone wrong - 5/20

1 dead - Ex-roommate charged in Del Valle homicide arrested, authorities say - 5/31

1 dead - Man faces murder charge after body found in Northeast Austin on Sunday - 6/5

1 dead - Police: Bastrop County woman in crashed car killed by gunshot - 6/9

1 dead - Police identify woman shot, killed in East Austin - 6/13

1 dead - Wimberley man accused of shooting, killing his father - 6/14

1 dead - Police investigating homicide in North Austin - 6/25

1 dead - Police: Homicide victim at East Austin burglary call was 14 years old - 6/27                                           

1 dead - Teen dies after being stabbed in Southeast Austin, police say - 7/1

1 dead - Police ID man found dead near Gus Garcia school property Saturday - 7/16

1 dead - Police: Man dies in 3rd reported Austin homicide since Saturday - 7/18

1 dead - Austin police investigating homicide at East Austin apartment complex - 7/18

1 dead - Police: Body found near airport last week was homicide victim - 7/21

3 dead - Police: Man, 2 women, 1 child shot to death at Bastrop apartments - 7/23

1 dead - Murder warrant issued for suspect in fatal downtown Austin shooting - 7/31

1 dead - Hays Co. deputies find body of missing Buda woman - 8/1

1 dead - Woman dead, 3 others injured after North Austin shooting, police say - 8/8

1 dead - Woman’s body found in field west of Lockhart, authorities say - 8/11

1 dead - Police seeking shooter after 1 killed, 1 wounded in East Austin - 8/11

1 dead - Witness describes East Austin shooting that left one man dead - 8/14

1 dead - Man fatally shoots friend inside moving car, friends say - 8/21

4 dead - Deaths of 4 in Del Valle being investigated as a homicide - 9/8

2 dead - Police investigating two bodies found in Northwest Austin field - 9/8

2 dead - Murder-suicide suspected in deaths of three in Bastrop County - 9/10

1 dead - Kyle police identify man killed in Wednesday shooting - 9/14

2 dead - Two found dead in Del Valle identified; deaths ruled homicides - 9/27

1 dead - One dead, one injured in Pflugerville shooting Saturday morning - 10/15

1 dead - Man dead from stab wounds in North Austin Sunday - 10/16

1 dead - Police: Mom's boyfriend charged in toddler's death - 10/18

Pending cases

Body recovered from Lady Bird Lake - 2/1

Police investigating suspicious death in Northwest Austin - 4/8

Authorities: Body found in Bastrop County may be result of homicide - 5/13

Man’s body found in Brushy Creek, Round Rock police say - 5/26

Austin area population

City: 912,791 (July 1, 2014 estimate) - source: US Census Bureau
Metro: 2,000,860 (July 1, 2015 estimate) - source: US Census Bureau
Travis County: 1,176,558 (2015 estimate) - source: US Census Bureau

Area - City: 297 square miles (2010) - US Census Bureau
Area - Metro: 4,285 square miles - Wikipedia
Area - Travis County: 1,023 square miles - Wikipedia

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Previous years
2015 - 19
2014 - 31
2013 - 25
2012 - 32
2011 - 28
2010 - 31
2009 - 23
2008 - 24
2007 - 30
2006 - 20
2005 - 26

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10/18/2016 - | Austin 26 | Travis Co. 33 | Bastrop Co. 6 | Caldwell Co. 1 | Hays Co. 5 | Williamson Co. 1 | Metro 45 |

10/18/2015 - | Austin 12 | Travis Co. 16 | Bastrop Co. 3 | Caldwell Co. 0 | Hays Co. 5 | Williamson Co. 7 | Metro 31 |

[Leo the Dog]

Tijuana pop: 1.6 million
9/30/16 homicide count: 636

89 last month alone. On pace to be the most violent year since 2010 when the city recorded at least 820 homicides.
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[urban_encounter]

Chicago's murder rate is disgraceful.

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by Tosin007

The Safety Net in Ohio likely isn't as strong as in Massachusetts or New York.
(& of course Canada). Although for its size/ a US City that's actually not even that bad.

That has nothing to do with U.S. murder rates (or, I suspect, Canadian murder rates).

NYC had crazy high crime in the 1970's, and had the best safety net in the U.S. back then. It still does today, now with the lowest crime rate of any U.S. city.

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by BG918

The worst neighborhoods of Chicago where the vast majority of these murders take place have more in common with a Latin American slum or Middle Eastern war zone.

Not really. Poor U.S. neighborhoods have similar income and education levels as many first world nations.

The murder rate problem in the U.S. is largely (not completely) an issue of young African American males in certain ghettoized geographies. Outside of those narrow demographics the U.S. murder rate is not that different from the rest of the first world.

[Tosin007]

Originally Posted by Crawford

That has nothing to do with U.S. murder rates (or, I suspect, Canadian murder rates).

NYC had crazy high crime in the 1970's, and had the best safety net in the U.S. back then. It still does today, now with the lowest crime rate of any U.S. city.

Lower than Portland or San Diego? Are u sure?

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by Tosin007

Lower than Portland or San Diego? Are u sure?

I think so, yeah. In any case, those cities don't have African Americans, really, and are largely suburban, so poor comparisons to NYC.

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Originally Posted by Crawford

That has nothing to do with U.S. murder rates (or, I suspect, Canadian murder rates).

NYC had crazy high crime in the 1970's, and had the best safety net in the U.S. back then. It still does today, now with the lowest crime rate of any U.S. city.

NYC does not have the lowest crime rate in the US lol

[Tosin007]

Originally Posted by Crawford

I think so, yeah. In any case, those cities don't have African Americans, really, and are largely suburban, so poor comparisons to NYC.

Toronto & Montreal in Canada both have more Black People than those Cities still less crime, Race has nothing to do with Crime. I could even bring up Paris & London as well. Treat Minorities better & they will do the same in society.

[jtown,man]

Originally Posted by Tosin007

Toronto & Montreal in Canada both have more Black People than those Cities still less crime, Race has nothing to do with Crime. I could even bring up Paris & London as well. Treat Minorities better & they will do the same in society.

And Indians in america do incredibly better than Indians in Indian do, what's your point?

You can't compare country to country.

Treat minorities better? Black crime rates exploded after the civil rights movement. Please learn more about american history before you chastise us on how we treat minorities. Also if its so bad here, why do we lead the world in immigration ...and yes there are many black immigrants. Who actually do better economically than our native black pop.

[Crawford]

Originally Posted by Tosin007

Toronto & Montreal in Canada both have more Black People than those Cities still less crime, Race has nothing to do with Crime. I could even bring up Paris & London as well. Treat Minorities better & they will do the same in society.

No, none of this is true.

There are very few African Americans in these cities. There are plenty of foreign-born black people, but, as in the U.S., foreign-born blacks aren't heavily correlated with homicide rates.

West Indian and West African neighborhoods in the U.S. tend to not have particularly high homicide rates. Places like Canarsie, Brooklyn, or Cambria Heights, Queens or Elmont, Long Island have relatively low homicide rates, and are mostly foreign-born black neighborhoods.

And the rise in African American homicide rate coincided with the greatest income/social welfare advances in U.S. history- the 1960's. so your theory makes zero sense. Detroit had the highest black incomes on earth concurrent with the explosion in inner city homicide rates. NYC had free university for all, free healthcare and the most generous welfare payments in existence concurrent with homicide peaks.

[Tosin007]

Originally Posted by jtown,man

And Indians in america do incredibly better than Indians in Indian do, what's your point?

You can't compare country to country.

Treat minorities better? Black crime rates exploded after the civil rights movement. Please learn more about american history before you chastise us on how we treat minorities. Also if its so bad here, why do we lead the world in immigration ...and yes there are many black immigrants. Who actually do better economically than our native black pop.

Yeah the US definitely knows how to market itself as a Country I guess.
(It's always sort of been that way). However this doesn't necessarily
equal "better" either. (After all the World's developed nation's are industrializing rapidly everyday too).
Some of these Countries too, Nigeria, Indonesia, even the Phillippines
could easily have more People overall than the US within our lifetimes also as their birth rates are considerably higher.
Furthermore Canada is also a Top 4 Country for Immigrant's which isn't saying much either. Yea Black Immigrants to the US tend to do better overall just like they do in other developed nations.
But I still stand by what I said b4 about treating minorities better.
In other Developed Nations I believe Blacks are still less afraid of the Police than in the US, you disagree?
Trump is right, you go to the grocery store u get shot, you guys need law & order!

[Tosin007]

Originally Posted by Crawford

No, none of this is true.

There are very few African Americans in these cities. There are plenty of foreign-born black people, but, as in the U.S., foreign-born blacks aren't heavily correlated with homicide rates.

West Indian and West African neighborhoods in the U.S. tend to not have particularly high homicide rates. Places like Canarsie, Brooklyn, or Cambria Heights, Queens or Elmont, Long Island have relatively low homicide rates, and are mostly foreign-born black neighborhoods.

And the rise in African American homicide rate coincided with the greatest income/social welfare advances in U.S. history- the 1960's. so your theory makes zero sense. Detroit had the highest black incomes on earth concurrent with the explosion in inner city homicide rates. NYC had free university for all, free healthcare and the most generous welfare payments in existence concurrent with homicide peaks.

You have some good points for sure, but it's not necessarily a good thing to not let Black's be responsible/ take responsibility for their lives wouldn't u say/ agree?
Infact I'd go as far as saying that giving them Welfare Benefits is actually an injustice against Blacks & their potential.
It's just vote buying & what it essentially does is allow the cycle of violence to continue.
Not all Blacks on welfare abuse it sure, but most have a propensity to do so. Before a Welfare State was enacted/ passed Black Homicide Rates in the US actually used to be FAR lower, check the stat's, the US Homicide Rate's peaked @ a point sure, but Pre-1950 US had Homicide Rate nationwide where comparable/ on par with Canada today. (No welfare state btw), & this is with Black's likely even making up much more of the US Population Per-Capita than they do today.

[tablemtn]

Portland has 14 murders/16 homicides after a murder-suicide at an office complex in the city's inner northeast:

Detectives: Woman shot in Portland office building; co-worker commits suicide nearby

[Acajack]

If things keep up Ottawa may end up with a murder rate similar to Portland's and Toronto may finish higher.

[brian_b]

Originally Posted by BG918

The worst neighborhoods of Chicago where the vast majority of these murders take place have more in common with a Latin American slum or Middle Eastern war zone. But a couple miles away, in some cases less than a mile, it is completely First World with tremendous wealth and new high rises going up left and right. US cities are typically two-faced but Chicago is the largest and most extreme example IMO.

Why not see for yourself?

https://visualizations.dnainfo.com/chishootings/

Look at where these shootings are concentrated. Hint: Filter to daytime shootings to get a sense of where the perpetrators live. At night, they are out looking for trouble, dealing drugs, going to clubs, etc.

Once you have found the locations, do some street view tours of those neighborhoods. Think they look like Middle Eastern war zones?

[Tosin007]

Originally Posted by Acajack

If things keep up Ottawa may end up with a murder rate similar to Portland's and Toronto may finish higher.

Ya but Canada still has Vancouver & Montréal that are both larger than Portland
with lower Murder Rates Per-Capita. Also Ottawa is considerably more Diverse than Portland is with a much larger
Downtown so it still offers more!
Canada is still vastly ahead of comparable sized US Cities! Oh Canada!


PS. The City Limits of Toronto is also larger than the whole Portland Metro Area as well,
lets not even go there Toronto offers ALOT more than Portland does, & its still very "safe."

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by jtown,man

And Indians in america do incredibly better than Indians in Indian do, what's your point?

I'd like to know how Indians do in Indiana. That's what I would like to know.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Tosin007

Ya but Canada still has Vancouver & Montréal that are both larger than Portland
with lower Murder Rates Per-Capita. Also Ottawa is considerably more Diverse than Portland is with a much larger
Downtown so it still offers more!
Canada is still vastly ahead of comparable sized US Cities! Oh Canada!


PS. The City Limits of Toronto is also larger than the whole Portland Metro Area as well,
lets not even go there Toronto offers ALOT more than Portland does, & its still very "safe."

Uhhh... sure. I guess.

[Ant131531]

Originally Posted by jtown,man

And Indians in america do incredibly better than Indians in Indian do, what's your point?

You can't compare country to country.

Treat minorities better? Black crime rates exploded after the civil rights movement. Please learn more about american history before you chastise us on how we treat minorities. Also if its so bad here, why do we lead the world in immigration ...and yes there are many black immigrants. Who actually do better economically than our native black pop.

Not really a great comparison considering blacks aren't native to Canada, France, and the U.K. like Indians are to India.

We have to ask ourselves....why does our native black population struggle while foreign immigrants thrive and prosper relatively speaking? I notice that violence among black citizens is higher in countries that had a significant slave past moreso than countries that did not...i.e. USA, Brazil, Jamaica...you get the point.

They are right though. Cities like Toronto, London, Paris all have pretty decent size black populations and murder rates in those cities are still all nearly at the 1.0/100k mark.