City Murder Rates - Page 125

tablemtn · #**2481** Posted **Oct 2, 2020, 6:50 AM**

Portland is probably approaching 50 murders so far this year, with at least 5 more in the past few days. Most appear to be gang-related shootings with no arrests made afterwards. The police seem to have lost control of the streets.

JoninATX · #**2482** Posted **Oct 4, 2020, 7:18 AM**

Even with homicides going up, this still isn't nearly as bad as the 90's. In 1991 NYC saw over 2,600 murders in that year alone.

Centropolis · #**2483** Posted **Oct 7, 2020, 1:00 AM**

anecdotally, as someone with multiple jobsites in east st. louis over the years (drove down kingshighway and state street today)...its overall extremely quiet, and the people much more chill than other areas. obviously theres beefing, etc and its reputation precedes it but it just doesn't seem that bad. physically it’s been apocalyptically ravaged by disinvestment and deindustrialization of course.

Handro · #**2484** Posted **Oct 7, 2020, 2:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by dc_denizen

According to statscan , the homicides rates of Yukon , Northwest Territories , and Nunavut are similar or higher than that of Alaska

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...a-by-province/

So Alaska , is not in fact ‘dangerous’, at least compared to its neighbors.

So is it just sort of the wild west (wild north)? Rough and tumble oil workers and loggers or whatever settling beefs with violence? Or is it more a story of poverty and desperation?

toddguy · #**2485** Posted **Oct 7, 2020, 3:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by JoninATX

Even with homicides going up, this still isn't nearly as bad as the 90's. In 1991 NYC saw over 2,600 murders in that year alone.

The overall murder rate for the nation is still way down(nearly half of what is was in 1980) and NYC is not doing badly at all compared to the early 90's, but some cities have already broken their all time homicide records with months to go in the year. I believe Jackson Ms. and Memphis are in this group. Cbus is way up in Ohio(latest press release from Cbus police is 123 as of yesterday-the record is 143 and we will probably break it) and Indy is doing horribly and may have already broken the all time record and if not they are close I think.

Some cities are just getting hit really hard. Jackson is just a few murders short of 100 with a population of less than 170,000 now. It seems some cities are up a bit, some up a lot, and some are really way way up.

tablemtn · #**2486** Posted **Oct 7, 2020, 8:31 PM**

Memphis hit an all-time record this year in terms of the number of murders:

City councilman pushing for ‘Murder Task Force’ in Memphis

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This year 230 people have been killed in homicides in Memphis. The number means the 2016 homicide record was broken with three more months in the year.

tablemtn · #**2487** Posted **Oct 19, 2020, 1:38 PM**

Seattle has 49 murders as of October 18:

Seattle police report record-setting homicides in 2020

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On Thursday, a person was shot and killed in a North Seattle apartment complex parking lot, making it the 49th murder in the city this year.

That ties the totals for 1997 and 1998, and is drawing closer to the all-time record of 69 murders set in 1994.

suburbanite · #**2488** Posted **Oct 19, 2020, 1:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Handro

So is it just sort of the wild west (wild north)? Rough and tumble oil workers and loggers or whatever settling beefs with violence? Or is it more a story of poverty and desperation?

Isolated and impoverished native communities make up a much larger percentage of a total provincial population of 39,000 (Nunavut).

bossabreezes · #**2489** Posted **Oct 20, 2020, 2:19 AM**

Philadelphia is at 386.

tablemtn · #**2490** Posted **Oct 25, 2020, 8:24 PM**

Portland had 3 separate murders overnight (Friday, October 24 into Saturday, October 25), none of which have been solved so far, raising the annual total to at least 43.

dubu · #**2491** Posted **Oct 25, 2020, 8:51 PM**

39 in portland is the top?
i remember i think for years its
always been in the 30's.
i live in bend oregon now.

tablemtn · #**2492** Posted **Oct 25, 2020, 9:04 PM**

Portland's all-time highest murder total was 66, during the year 1987. But the city was smaller back then, so as a matter of rate, that would be 111 murders. But, 43 murders is already the highest since 1997 (46).

KevinFromTexas · #**2493** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 2:20 AM**

9 shootings and 12 dead in DFW this weekend.

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/cr...Q5QxI8ntMQ2kLU

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At least 10 people killed, 7 injured in multiple shootings during violent weekend across Dallas-Fort Worth

BG918 · #**2494** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 2:34 AM**

St Louis reached an all time high back in September with 194 homicides. Currently the city has had 214 homicides in a city of only 300,000. Insane

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...57fc15c8e.html

BG918 · #**2495** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 2:37 AM**

Kansas City broke its previous homicides record this month with 154 homicides in a city of 500,000

https://www.kctv5.com/news/kctv5_new...947295ba0.html

bossabreezes · #**2496** Posted **Oct 29, 2020, 1:32 AM**

With the recent violence in Philadelphia, the number of murders stands at 404 as of yesterday. 42% higher than last year.

Philadelphias all time murder number was 505 back in the 90s, it's possible it could be broken due to the unrest in the city and general lawlessness and impunity in the country.

Yuri · #**2497** Posted **Oct 29, 2020, 2:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by bossabreezes

With the recent violence in Philadelphia, the number of murders stands at 404 as of yesterday. 42% higher than last year.

Philadelphias all time murder number was 505 back in the 90s, it's possible it could be broken due to the unrest in the city and general lawlessness and impunity in the country.

In your opinion, that's only a matter of a tougher police enforcement or there are other underlying causes as well (e.g. lack of career prospects, good jobs, etc.)?

galleyfox · #**2498** Posted **Oct 29, 2020, 6:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by yuriandrade

In your opinion, that's only a matter of a tougher police enforcement or there are other underlying causes as well (e.g. lack of career prospects, good jobs, etc.)?

The primary cause of violence is a person’s social network.

In Chicago the biggest predictor of whether a person will commit or be victim of a shooting is how many personal ties to other gunmen they have. It’s a much much higher correlation than poverty, employment, education, race or other commonly cited factors.

What happens in a crime spike is that a violent act by a criminal is imitated by other members of their immediate social group who are then imitated by the 2nd degree peers and so on. The job of law enforcement is to break that chain as soon as possible. Whether by arresting a criminal or just letting potential offenders know they’re being monitored. Employment, school, church are just other less punitive ways to break the chain and build more positive networks.

What’s been happening in recent years is that social media is speeding up this cycle too fast for traditional social controls to react. People online see someone like them riot in Seattle over a dumb statue, next day 10 other cities are seeing riots over statues. Same with homicide.

Sometimes the only way out of a crime wave is generational change when violent behavior becomes passé and uncool. That’s likely the main reason for the crime drop off following the 90s. Otherwise cities can act during a lull such as during Winter and step up law enforcement.

KevinFromTexas · #**2499** Posted **Oct 31, 2020, 6:53 PM**

2020 Austin Metro Murders

| Austin 41 | Travis Co. 50 | Bastrop Co. 1 | Caldwell Co. 2 | Hays Co. 5 | Williamson Co. 5 | Metro 63 |

Causes metrowide
Shooting - 48
Stabbing - 7
Strangled - 0
Suffocation - 0
Throwing (of child) - 0
Beating - 1
Vehicular homicide - 0
Blunt force trauma - 1
Sharp force trauma - 0
Unlisted cause - 7
Domestic terrorism - 0

Austin totals
Downtown - 3
Central Austin - 1
East Austin - 10
North Austin - 5
Northeast Austin - 8
Northwest Austin - 1
South Austin - 7
Southeast Austin - 6
Southwest Austin - 0
West Austin - 1

Victims
Male - 46
Female - 11
Unlisted - 4

| Jan 6 | Feb 6 | Mar 9 | Apr 4 | May 5 | Jun 9 | Jul 5 | Aug 6 | Sep 5 | Oct 6 | Nov 3 | Dec 0 |

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| Mon 7 | Tue 10 | Wed 7 | Thur 10 | Fri 8 | Sat 12 | Sun 9 |

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Murder cases

Code:

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/4-people-stabbed-in-attack-on-south-congress/?fbclid=IwAR30os7QA-0IUpsC8RxheTAXJFZLOl-57LO51A44-3OB4uD2-0v2DnSCON0 - 1/3 - Austin stabbing

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/one-injured-in-east-austin-shooting/ - 1/11 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/police-looking-for-suspect-in-east-austin-stabbing/?fbclid=IwAR2f4m_Is2jKFsQRwsEiJwMUyAlxUREKRTiWk0utxcyHTrQzeQjJcfVg0f8 - 1/17 - Austin stabbing

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-5-0 - 1/19 - Austin blunt force trauma

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local-news/atcems-reporting-to-possible-east-austin-shooting-someone-possibly-dead/ - 1/20 - Austin shooting

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-4-0 - 1/23 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200202/2-dead-after-pflugerville-shooting-saturday-night-police-say?template=ampart - 2/1 - Pflugerville shooting

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-6-0 - 2/17 - Austin shooting

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-9-0 - 2/21 - Austin shooting

2 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/police-identify-third-suspect-in-northeast-austin-apartment-shooting/ - 2/25 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200305/police-arrest-made-in-georgetown-missing-man-case?template=ampart - 2/25 - Georgetown unlisted cause

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/williamson-county/round-rock-teen-arrested-in-connection-with-fatal-shooting-of-17-year-old/ - 3/3 - Round Rock shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/homicide-investigation-opened-after-male-victim-shot-dead-in-south-austin/ - 3/13 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/teen-shot-and-dropped-off-at-taylor-hospital-declared-dead-on-arrival-suspect-in-custody/ - 3/21 - Taylor shooting

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-11-0 - 3/22 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200325/man-dies-from-wounds-after-cedar-park-shooting-sunday?template=ampart - 3/25 - Cedar Park shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/apd-investigating-homicide-in-north-austin/ - 3/26 - Austin stabbing

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-13-0 - 3/27 - Austin body found with trauma

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200329/overnight-man-killed-woman-injured-in-north-austin-shooting - 3/29 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/travis-county/authorities-investigating-report-of-shots-fired-in-pflugerville/ - 3/31 - Pflugerville shooting

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-15-0 - 4/13 - Austin stabbing

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200427/suspect-in-manchaca-womans-death-also-found-dead-authorities-say?template=ampart - 4/16 - Manchaca shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/hays/san-marcos-police-urge-shelter-in-place-as-they-respond-to-incident/ - 4/18 - San Marcos shooting

1 dead - https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/downtown-austin-street-fight-turns-fatal/269-02712655-7a03-46a8-8a3f-2320a0966765 - 4/18 - Austin beating

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200520/update-suspect-in-custody-after-fatal-pflugerville-shooting?template=ampart - 5/19 - Pflugerville shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/bastrop-county/bastrop-county-sheriffs-office-investigating-homicide-outside-del-valle-grocery-store/ - 5/24 - Del Valle shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/travis-county/woman-pronounced-dead-at-scene-of-shooting-in-pflugerville/ - 5/26 - Pflugerville shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/man-dead-in-shooting-at-east-austin-apartment-complex/ - 5/28 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200917/man-charged-in-fatal-san-marcos-shooting-turns-himself-in-officials-say?template=ampart - 5/30 - San Marcos shooting

2 dead - https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/caldwell-county-community-heartbroken-shooting-victims-luling-cousins/269-fe416567-31dc-4d4c-b5be-2a4954eb40db?fbclid=IwAR1turRK-yslvb0e8a9cAuoOU0y6jCoSzkFJGbWjKCsKDchIwgkqS4Ue4es - 6/14 - Luling shooting

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200620/austin-police-respond-to-two-homicides-within-hours-of-each-other?template=ampart - 6/20 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200620/austin-police-respond-to-two-homicides-within-hours-of-each-other?template=ampart - 6/20 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200701/ice-cream-vendor-shot-in-north-austin-robbery-has-died-police-say?template=ampart - 6/23 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200806/2-arrested-in-connection-with-death-of-missing-round-rock-man-police-say?template=ampart - 6/24 - Body found - Travis County

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/suspect-arrested-in-connection-with-east-austin-homicide/ - 6/24 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/police-investigating-homicide-after-person-shot-dead-in-east-austin/ - 6/28 - Austin shooting

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-23-0 - 7/8 - Austin stabbing

1 dead - https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/homcide-investigation-southeast-austin-wickersham/269-24ca5a01-c656-4a86-913d-24c46395ff19?fbclid=IwAR0YyjMxlhLLtz3hO2stCxQ4E9EdAMKcR37zX8-XQc2-12294WCmIWHaKag - 7/13 - Austin shooting

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-25-0 - 7/16 - Austin shooting

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-26-0 - 7/19 - Austin shooting 

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-27-1 - 7/20 - Austin shooting

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-29-0 - 8/18 - body found - Austin

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/police-one-person-shot-in-east-austin/ - 8/22 - Austin shooting

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-33-0 - 8/26 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/apd-investigating-fatal-shooting-in-downtown-austin/ - 8/27 - Austin shooting

2 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/deputies-man-2-children-found-dead-outside-san-marcos-home/ - 8/27 - Hays County shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/austin-police-investigating-death-in-south-austin/ - 9/4 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/apd-investigating-suspicious-death-in-south-austin-providing-more-details-at-9-a-m-briefing/ - 9/16 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200925/round-rock-police-investigating-manrsquos-stabbing-death - Round Rock stabbing - 9/25

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200930/teenager-killed-in-northeast-austin-shooting-after-apparent-drug-deal-police-say?template=ampart - Austin shooting - 9/29

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20201001/1-killed-in-pflugerville-shooting-wednesday-night-police-say - Pflugerville shooting - 9/30

1 dead - http://www.austintexas.gov/news/homicide-37-0 - Austin shooting - 10/1

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/man-arrested-after-deadly-stabbing-at-austin-resource-center-for-the-homeless/ - 10/8 - Austin stabbing

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/homicide-investigation-launched-after-man-shot-dead-at-travis-county-apartment-complex/ - 10/18 - Pflugerville shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/1-person-killed-outside-of-east-austin-club-during-large-social-gathering-apd-says/ - 10/25 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/2-men-shot-1-killed-in-se-austin/ - 10/26 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-police-investigate-homicide-in-north-austin-neighborhood/ - 10/30 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/hays-county/hays-county-kyle-texas-homicide-poco-loco-798-high-road-nov-2/269-de8f9276-333e-47fe-b47c-5a6b2ec13a1f - 11/2 - Kyle shooting 

1 dead - https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/one-reportedly-killed-in-northwest-austin-robbery/269-addebc62-c284-4911-bc73-92058fe8bca2 - 11/6 - Austin shooting

1 dead - https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/fatal-shooting-waffle-house-northeast-austin/269-5a012ed6-9885-49d2-b8e0-b1f74012d80b - 11/7 - Austin shooting

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Pending cases

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1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/police-investigating-body-found-near-taco-shack-in-northwest-austin/ - 2/29 - body found - Austin

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200311/manrsquos-body-found-on-conveyor-belt-at-recycling-plant-in-travis-county?template=ampart - 3/11 - body found - Austin

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/body-found-outside-texas-workforce-commission/ - 4/6 - Austin body found

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200418/body-found-behind-h-e-b-store-in-round-rock-police-say?template=ampart - 4/18 - Round Rock - body found

1 dead - https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/manchaca-body-found-homicide-investigation-janice-hughes/269-c1872dc9-e085-4752-a759-473ebc9ad239?fbclid=IwAR2Bs8NV2YaYn9T0LgjH5JoS2-g1_l7KB4e935ziMKvSTUOnI80oMgHh1Xs - 4/16 - Manchaca - body found

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200521/just-in-body-found-near-homeless-camp-in-northeastern-travis-county-officials-say?template=ampart - 5/21 - body found - Austin

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-police-investigating-death-in-southeast-austin-neighborhood/?fbclid=IwAR1y85EHiYB1w1f0ooGd-vsfM0d1Kw5VE9kkeEsBENTdG-GTUbk4zInyf8U - 826 - Austin suspicious death

1 dead - https://www.statesman.com/news/20200928/cedar-park-police-searching-for-information-on-man-found-dead - body found - Austin - 9/28

1 dead - https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/apd-finds-body-on-south-first-street-unknown-if-death-is-suspicious/ - 10/28

Austin area population

City: 964,254 (July 1, 2018 estimate) - source: US Census Bureau
Travis County: 1,273,954 (July 1, 2019 estimate) - source: US Census Bureau
Metro: 2,227,083 (July 1, 2019 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

Oliver May · #**2500** Posted **Nov 1, 2020, 5:30 PM**

Since Quebec City is in the news. Here is an update.

7 murders in 2020 (5 in the last 5 weeks, 1 single homicide and two double homicides).

Area population - 531,902, metro area - 800,296
Rate - 0.87 per 100,000.