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Man it's sad to see how violent Dallas is becomming. It used to be a nice and relatively safe City. Even the Police are murdering people. Well I guess it has a nickname. "The Chicago Of The South" I hope this year is better than the last. I'm starting to see a lot of yard signs "STOP THE VIOLENCE"
Regarding the comments in bold, you make it seem like Dallas is experiencing unprecedented levels of violence never seen before, which isn't the case. Anyone familiar with the city would know there were times when the situation was much worse. Crime rates in Dallas peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s, like they did in many major U.S. cities. Since then, despite fluctuations from year to year, the overall trend has been downward. The recent uptick in homicides and violent crimes is unfortunate, but even with those increases, Dallas in 2019-20 is still safer and less violent than Dallas in 2010, 2000, 1995, or 1990.
In Chicago there is such a general correlation. The higher the murder rate un January (2016-2018) the higher the murder rate for the year. The Tribune helpfully diagrams that here:
Wow. That's interesting. Philly can and has had about 30 at this point and ended the year with like 315, but can just as likely be at about 12 now and have 360 by the end of the year.
I'm impressed with Houston. It's a city of 2.3 million people, but has less than half the murder total of Dallas. If you consider population, it also has a lower YTD homicide rate than Austin and it's a much more diverse city socio-economically so it's even more impressive.
Ikr. What's going on in Dallas? Houston literally has 950,000 more people. What's more is Dallas is usually talked about among black folks as the more uppity and prissy of the two cities with a professional reputation, while Houston is known to be the more casual party city with a more wild reputation.
That's awful. Still not Baltimore-level bad, but far worse than Chicago (which is "only" at at 24). That is really saying something
Philly always has the most for the first few months. Last year Chicago didn't overtake Philly until the beginning of April but still managed to end the year with 140 more homicides than Philly.
Lower number than last year. Crazy how in 1990 NYC would have been at 144 murders at this point.
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