Cities and Metro Murders (crime, compared, population, people)

[killakoolaide]

Originally Posted by el don

"illadelph, home of the original gun-clappers", as black thought from the roots once said, is winning this horrible race so far with a whooping 94 homicides so far this year.

*Actually, looking at it from the population of a city, i think B-more has it beat, 44 deaths through 600 residents, if you extrapolate that number by 2.5 the deaths would be 110. This is all hypothetical of course

Its cause the water is polluted with pharmaceuticals, long term exposure has altered the population and its collective mindframe slightly. That's why Philly is still so violent, and the metro cities own nearly half the of the top 10 spots on every kind of list that is bad. If you come to Philly, don't drink the water, it tastes like ass.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by Neworleansisprettygood

New Orleans is up to 49.

I will make a correction in regards to my last post. At the current rate, New Orleans could hit 196 murders this year, even 200.

[Spade]

DC is at 18. Down from 26 at this point last year.

[MPLS_TC]

Chicago is at 122

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by MPLS_TC

Chicago is at 122

Chicago could hit 488 murders by the end of this year. This is not even taking into account the summer. If I take into account the summer murder rate spike, Chicago could go well past 500 murders.

[MPLS_TC]

Caracas, Venezuela is a city comparible in size to chicago and that city has 3,164 homicides in 2011. it kind of makes chicago look pretty nice.

[DtX4415]

Originally Posted by MPLS_TC

Caracas, Venezuela is a city comparible in size to chicago and that city has 3,164 homicides in 2011. it kind of makes chicago look pretty nice.

Not this again, you can't compare cities based on size or any single metric alone, it's way too simplistic and only leads to incorrect comparisons.

[rah]

San Francisco is at 18 so far (including 5 dead in a single robbery).

San Jose is at 7 so far.

Oakland is at...not sure, but I think it's around 30 by now (including 7 dead in a single school shooting).

The Bay Area seems to be having bad luck with the mass murders so far, with two in as many weeks, leaving 12 people dead.

[rnc2mbfl]

Originally Posted by Neworleansisprettygood

Thought I would resurrect this thread. The last one was deleted because it ended up turning into an argument about Philadelphia.

New Orleans: 46 as of 4/3/12. We had a flurry of killings to begin the year and then a drop-off but it has started again. With the unusually warm weather here (that was also experienced around the country) the murder rate is higher than it would normally be.

Wow. That's 2 years' worth of Hunger Games killings in less than 4 months.

[DtX4415]

Detroit - 83


2011 - _76, year total = 344
2010 - _73, year total = 308
2009 - _96, year total = 362
2008 - _73, year total = 339
2007 - _76, year total = 391
2006 - _97, year total = 406
2005 - _83, year total = 373
2004 - 111, year total = 409
2003 - _79, year total = 403