City Murder Rates

[tjp]

Originally Posted by maru2501

I went back and read some of his tweets. (He is @50frmDaO ).. not long ago he tweeted he was 32 years old, and joked that was 80 in Chicago years.. so true in those areas.
And the tooka guys already deleted some of their stuff taking credit, so maybe they aren't completely stupid

I just spent fifteen minutes reading through some of those guys' tweets. Jesus Christ.

[Flyers2001]

Philadelphia

276 to date as of 12/27.

Last year 275.


There has been several murders the last couple days so I expect a bit of an uptick, but it has been a very comparable year to last. When the number settle for the year, I expect to see a little bit of a change to where the murders took place.

[Emprise du Lion]

Well hell. A neighborhood in St. Louis had a murder rate of 290.8 per 100,000 last year. It will be higher this year, as the number of homicides there has increased by 2.
http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsb...murder-capital

I will say though that the article does raise a good point about using rates when dealing with a neighborhood of roughly 6,000 people. It's certainly a horrifically dangerous place, but St. Louis' small neighborhoods with small populations don't lend themselves well to comparison.

[KevinFromTexas]

Austin has hit 39 murders so far this year. That's the highest number since 1997.

Latest Austin killing makes yearly count highest in nearly 20 years

[Dallas_BJJ]

Cleveland,OH (136).

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index...art_river_home

[Laborant]

Originally Posted by Emprise du Lion

Well hell. A neighborhood in St. Louis had a murder rate of 290.8 per 100,000 last year. It will be higher this year, as the number of homicides there has increased by 2.
http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsb...murder-capital

I will say though that the article does raise a good point about using rates when dealing with a neighborhood of roughly 6,000 people. It's certainly a horrifically dangerous place, but St. Louis' small neighborhoods with small populations don't lend themselves well to comparison.

North St. Louis is pretty troubled area as well. If we combine 30 northern neighborhoods we also get pretty horrific numbers. We also have to take into account population decline rate based on previous two censuses, because those are still crime plagued, impoverished areas and there is little to no hope that population decrease rate is declining. Here are the numbers for 2015:

Neighborhoods with murder rate over 300:
- Mark Twain I-70 Ind,
- Greater Ville.

Neighborhoods with murder rate between 200 and 300:
- Wells/Goodfellow,
- Jeff Wanderlou,
- College Hill,
- Fountain Park,
- Hyde Park,
- Mark Twain.

Neighborhoods with murder rate between 100 and 200:
- Near North Riverfront,
- Kingsway West,
- Kingsway East,
- Penrose,
- Baden,
- Hamilton Heights,
- Walnut Park West,
- Fairground,
- The Ville,
- North Riverfront.

Neighborhoods with murder less than 100:
- Grand Center,
- Old North St. Louis,
- West End,
- Walnut Park East,
- Academy,
- North Point,
- Vandeventer,
- Lewis Place.
- O'Fallon,
- Carr Square,
- Columbus Square,
- Visitation Park.

Note: Those are really small, uncomparable to Chiraq's, neighborhoods where 1 murder can generate a murder rate of 195 and in one case 4 murders generated murder rate of 316.



Above is the picture of the listed neighborhoods. Hoods painted in black have murder rate above 300, hoods painted in dark red have murder rate between 200 and 300. Hoods painted in red have murder rates between 100 and 200. Hoods painted in orange have murder rates less than 100.

North St. Louis:
Population in 2015: 92.000
Area: 21.5 square miles
Number of murders: 139
Murder rate: 150.6

So yeah, North STL also became skyrocketing dangerously area and we could put it side to side with worst areas of Chiraq.

[Leo the Dog]

I was reading an article in the LA Times about violent crime jumping for a third consecutive year and this fact/figure really stuck out:

The number of shooting victims in Los Angeles – 1,152 as of Dec. 17 -- was up 6% over last year and 23% over two years ago.

“Any one of those could have been a homicide by another inch or centimeter,” Moore said. “Our most pressing matter right now is shooting victims.”

Aside from all the other successes in curbing the violence/falling homicide rates has been response times by first responders and advances in medical procedures/technology.

50, 60, 100 years ago, if there were 1152 gunshot victims and 75% of those passed away due to poor treatment that would equate to 864 deaths.

[LA21st]

J

Originally Posted by Leo the Dog

I was reading an article in the LA Times about violent crime jumping for a third consecutive year and this fact/figure really stuck out:



Aside from all the other successes in curbing the violence/falling homicide rates has been response times by first responders and advances in medical procedures/technology.

50, 60, 100 years ago, if there were 1152 gunshot victims and 75% of those passed away due to poor treatment that would equate to 864 deaths.

Thsts true for any city.
I believe chicago had almost 4 thousand shooting victims.

[Gresto]

Toronto closes out the annum with 69 homicides.

[Dallas_BJJ]

Indianapolis,IN (150).

http://www.wthr.com/article/impd-inv...est-side-motel

[Darkoshvilli]

Montreal finishes with 23. That's the lowest total here since the 60s.

[Derek]

Portland had 20 homicides in 2016, down from 34 in 2015.

[Oliver May]

Quebec City's number is one. The lowest since 2007 (the year without a murder). Pop. 540,000. Metro. 806,000.

Also, the city went 14 months without a murder.

Some fairly large cities in Quebec are without a murder in 2016 - Gatineau (pop. 265,000), Sherbrooke (pop. 155,000) Levis (pop. 139,000).

[James Bond Agent 007]

Kansas City finished the year with 125.

[tech12]

SF ended the year with 59, up from 53 in 2015.
Oakland ended with 87, down from 95 in 2015.
SJ ended with 47, up from 28 in 2015.

And SF is now at 2 murders for the new year, after fatal shootings in the mission and bayview districts.

[SlidellWx]

New Orleans finished the year with 175 murders. The most since 2012, and an increase of 6.7% from 2015. The vast majority of the murders happened in the 5th, 6th, and 7th police districts, and specifically in the Little Woods, Seventh Ward, St. Roch, and Central City neighborhoods. Murder rate of 45.2/100,000.

Baton Rouge finished the year with 45 murders. The second lowest number of murders since 1989. Murder rate of 19.7/100,000.

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Looks like LA ended with 294, NYC with 334 and Chicago with 762! At least 3 homicides in Chicago as of noon today.

[ssiguy]

London Ontario pop 390k finished with 4 and a total of 5 in the entire metropolitan area of 515k.

[TimCity2000]

Birmingham, Jefferson County end violent 2016 with spike in homicides

Excerpts:

2016 was a year of bloodshed in Birmingham, which left the city with a triple-digit homicide tally for the first time in 10 years

There were 104 homicides in the city, of which 92 were deemed criminal by authorities. In all of Jefferson County, there were 151 homicides, up from 144.


Of the 104 homicides in Birmingham, 10 have been ruled justifiable and two were officer-involved shootings by outside law enforcement agencies - the Shelby County Sheriff's Office and the Irondale Police Department. Birmingham police do not count homicides ruled justifiable in their year-end tally because they only have to include criminal homicides in what they turn in to the FBI each year.

The numbers presented by AL.com for all years include all killings, whether they were ruled justifiable or not. Al.com does not include traffic fatalities that yielded criminal charges in its year-end homicide number.

[summersm343]

Philadelphia ended 2016 with 277 homicides. That is a rate of 17.67 per 100,000

Pittsburgh ended 2016 with 59 homicides. That is a rate of 19.41 per 100,000