It was another peaceful year for the Madrid region ('la Comunidad de Madrid;' population 6,4770,000), with a total of 34 murders for a rate of 0.52 per 100,000, among the lowest for major European cities:
The Madrid region recorded 34 murders in 2018
Only 3 of those murders were from shootings.
On the other end of the scale, Spain's former colony of El Salvador finished the year with 3,340 murders for c. 6.2 million, or a rate of 53.9.
Portland ended the year with 28 murders and an uncharacteristically-high five justified homicides. Both numbers are way up from the 14 murders in 2013, as the homelessness crisis and a street-gang war have overwhelmed local police. For a population of slightly less than 650,000, those murders represent a rate of 4.3.
33 homicides in Portland in 2018 involved victims ranging in age from 18 to 89