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In addition to everything I have just said, there is another state I want to mention. Maryland is another state that wasn't as violent in the 1960s, but has become more violent over time. Maryland ranked #15 I believe when it came to murders, with a murder rate of 6.89 murders per 100,000 for the 1960s decade. However, it slowly started to go up and like Louisiana, peaked in the 1990s. Since the 1990s, Maryland has been in the top 10 in murder rates. It isn't in the double digits now, but it has gone high as well.
Obviously, most of the murders have come out of Baltimore. However, over the years, Prince George's County might be the other factor. Criminals from DC preferred Maryland over Virginia because Maryland was considered softer on crime than Virginia.
Plus in Maryland the criminals control the jails. So not a bad place to do time.
There was a scandal in New York where a prison guard got pregnant by one of the inmates.
This happened in Maryland too. Baltimore City jail I think. A number of the guards were having affairs with inmates, and smuggling in drugs, cell-phones, etc. It's been a big story in the Washington Post.
This happened in Maryland too. Baltimore City jail I think. A number of the guards were having affairs with inmates, and smuggling in drugs, cell-phones, etc. It's been a big story in the Washington Post.
Didn't know it went that far. I guess it shouldn't be surprising. Prisoners have tried to smuggle drugs into prisons in other states, such as California.
Mississippi has also jumped up a few places. It has been in the top 10 as far as murders rates go in every decade. I'm talking about decade averages. Mississippi for the 2010-2011 time span is #2 in murders. The murder rate has dropped, but so has the murder rate for some other historically violent states, such as Nevada, Georgia, Texas, and Alaska.
Didn't know it went that far. I guess it shouldn't be surprising. Prisoners have tried to smuggle drugs into prisons in other states, such as California.
Mississippi has also jumped up a few places. It has been in the top 10 as far as murders rates go in every decade. I'm talking about decade averages. Mississippi for the 2010-2011 time span is #2 in murders. The murder rate has dropped, but so has the murder rate for some other historically violent states, such as Nevada, Georgia, Texas, and Alaska.
From 1990-2011 the average annual murder rate in Louisiana was at least 29% higher than any other U.S. state.
Louisiana--14.12 per 100k
Mississippi-9.96 per 100k
Maryland--9.85 per 100k
From 1990-2011 the average annual murder rate in Louisiana was at least 29% higher than any other U.S. state.
Louisiana--14.12 per 100k
Mississippi-9.96 per 100k
Maryland--9.85 per 100k
For that time period, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Maryland have been quite violent. I think it coincides with New Orleans and Baltimore peaking in murder rates.
Washington,DC had a murder rate of 80.6 murders per 100,000. While DC isn't part of any state, and isn't a state at all, I'm guessing the violence that was in DC might have spilled into Maryland in addition to the violence in Baltimore.
Louisiana hit 20.3 murders per 100,000 in 1993(Nevada is the only other state in the USA to ever hit 20 murders per 100,000 between 1960 and 2011). As you have mentioned, Louisiana has stayed violent for a long time. New Orleans hit 80 murders per 100,000 in 1993.
Mississippi, I don't know. What I do know is that Arkansas also saw a peak in violence during the 1990s as well.
N.O. was terrible over the three year period between 93 &95 with an 80 per annual average. 80.3,85.8 & 74.5. The Louisiana average in 93 & 94 was 20 per with 20.3 & 19.8
N.O. was terrible over the three year period between 93 &95 with an 80 per annual average. 80.3,85.8 & 74.5. The Louisiana average in 93 & 94 was 20 per with 20.3 & 19.8
I went there in 1993, during the summer. I never knew how dangerous it was because I was a kid. Louisiana has the reputation for being a very corrupt state as well.
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