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Originally Posted by deja vu
Flint hits 50 murders. The city saw 61 homicides total in 2020, 46 in 2019. At this pace, the city is on-track to have 70+ murders in 2021.
For perspective, Flint is about 1/12 the population of Austin (961,855 / 81,252). I know it's not a very meaningful computation, and definitely not a contest, but that would be like Austin having ~600 murders for the year right now.
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The crime stats the city releases weekly show, as of yesterday (9/12):
- 47 murders/nonnegligent homicides
- 1 negligent homicide/manslaughter (involuntary)
- 1 negligent homicide vehicle/boat/snowmobile
- 2 justifiable homicides
https://www.cityofflint.com/wp-conte...ND_2021B-1.pdf
So, 51 total homicides but 47 for the purposes of this thread. Right?
My post on Aug. 25 saying Flint was at 48 was not totally correct because MLive started using the total homicide number, instead of the murder number, causing it to appear there was a huge jump when there really wasn't (this was AFTER the stretch of 8 murders in 10 days but those were already accounted for).