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Chicago seems bad now but its never hit 1000 homicides in a year. NYC has had over 2000 in a year before. And yeah chicago might hit 600. Remember when miami back in the 80s was hitting over 600 and they only had a population of 350,000. Baltimore and Philadelphia and St. Louis all make chicago seem not too bad at all.
Chicago seems bad now but its never hit 1000 homicides in a year. NYC has had over 2000 in a year before. And yeah chicago might hit 600. Remember when miami back in the 80s was hitting over 600 and they only had a population of 350,000. Baltimore and Philadelphia and St. Louis all make chicago seem not too bad at all.
That 600 applied to Miami-Dade as the city of Miami itself has never seen at least 300 homicides in a given year.
and right now does chicago crack the top 10 for murder rate for America's 50 largest cities?
So because it doesn’t crack the top 10 murder rate means it’s not a problem? It still has one of the highest murder rates in the country. Definitely cracks the top 20 though according to this list from 2018
The funny thing is when others cities with high homicide rates are discussed rarely do you see those residents go out their way to talk about other cities. I always see this with Chicago posters though.
The Philadelphia police website says 198 now. It seems to add a few at a time because a day and a half ago it said 193. I thought from the homicide reports on CBS I saw that it would only be 196 now. Does CBS Philly not report every homicide?
This is a bad comparison. Lol.
1. Those uptick aren't very alarming. Let's not forget the beginning of last year was VERY VERY calm. Then in the last 6 months crime went up. Because crime goes up and down. That's how it goes.
2. I'm from Soundview. Very Very few neighborhoods in NYC saw the amount of crime I saw growing up. I know whats up.
3. I doubt we'll go back to 1990s in 2 years. TWO.
4. Chicago murder rate has been dropping consistently. This year is peculiar.
A drug epidemic like crack cocaine in the 1980's could get us closer to it. It would take longer than 2 years though. I'm thinking if the upward trend continues through 2025 then the 2015-2025 period will be seen as an overall rise, with a slight dip in 2017-2019 but was still higher than the low point of 2012/13-ish. I remember 2015 and especially 2016 having spikes.
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