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No I am not joking. St Louis has the same population and is pushing 300 homicides.. so yeah 60 doesn't seem so bad now does it? Saginaw, MI a city with a lil over 40,000 people has almost 30 murders. Flint MI often gets over 60 murders and the city population is under 100k. Those are just a few of many examples. Another one Jackson MS population 160k is almost at 130 murders this year..
I never knew Jackson Mississippi and Birmingham Alabama was top tier cities in murder rates !!!!
People think of Mississippi and Alabama and automatically think country and slow. That's why it's never good to judge a book.
Bad year for everybody, some historic numbers for some. Key points. Memphis- for the first time in modern history is worst than Detroit and on par with Baltimore. Detroit, Baltimore and Memphis are basically the same cities. IDK whats up with Kansas City and Indianapolis and Cleveland. DC sadly is worst year since 2004 and has 346 for the metro.
You can't leave out St Louis and New Orleans.
I know New Orleans had the most Murder Capital title's in U.S History.
Going back to 1985, only six big cities have held the dubious distinction of U.S. “murder capital,” as measured on a per capita basis. Besides St. Louis, they include Detroit (six times, most recently in 2013); New Orleans (13 times, most recently in 2011); Birmingham, Alabama (once, in 2005); Washington, D.C. (eight times, most recently in 1999); and Richmond, Virginia (once, in 1997).
New Orleans 13 x
D.C 8 x
Baltimore 7x
St Louis 7x
Detroit 6x
Richmond VA was murder Capital in 97 wow !!!!!
And if we go back further than 85, Detroit was one of the worse cities in the 70's.
While Chicago’s murder rate is far from the highest in the nation, it has led the U.S. in murder totals each year since 2012. Since 1985, only two other cities have held this distinction: New York and Los Angeles, which are also the only two American cities with larger populations than Chicago’s.
St. Louis led the nation with 66.1 murders per 100,000 people in 2017, according to the FBI’s most recent yearly statistics, released in September. It was followed by Baltimore (55.8 per 100,000), Detroit (39.8 per 100,000), New Orleans (39.5 per 100,000) and Baton Rouge, Louisiana (38.3 per 100,000).
Still with all the chaos today, The 80's & 90's are by far the worse decade's in American history.
The country with the strongest economy in the world is now out of control with no hope for the future.
I never knew Jackson Mississippi and Birmingham Alabama was top tier cities in murder rates !!!!
People think of Mississippi and Alabama and automatically think country and slow. That's why it's never good to judge a book.
That haven't cease to amaze me when people generally think about these places not being " urban". As it displays on the C-D, northeast region had a longer history of their populations leaning towards urban residence & setting the tone for that definition.
I know New Orleans had the most Murder Capital title's in U.S History.
Going back to 1985, only six big cities have held the dubious distinction of U.S. “murder capital,” as measured on a per capita basis. Besides St. Louis, they include Detroit (six times, most recently in 2013); New Orleans (13 times, most recently in 2011); Birmingham, Alabama (once, in 2005); Washington, D.C. (eight times, most recently in 1999); and Richmond, Virginia (once, in 1997).
New Orleans 13 x
D.C 8 x
Baltimore 7x
St Louis 7x
Detroit 6x
Richmond VA was murder Capital in 97 wow !!!!!
And if we go back further than 85, Detroit was one of the worse cities in the 70's.
While Chicago’s murder rate is far from the highest in the nation, it has led the U.S. in murder totals each year since 2012. Since 1985, only two other cities have held this distinction: New York and Los Angeles, which are also the only two American cities with larger populations than Chicago’s.
St. Louis led the nation with 66.1 murders per 100,000 people in 2017, according to the FBI’s most recent yearly statistics, released in September. It was followed by Baltimore (55.8 per 100,000), Detroit (39.8 per 100,000), New Orleans (39.5 per 100,000) and Baton Rouge, Louisiana (38.3 per 100,000).
Still with all the chaos today, The 80's & 90's are by far the worse decade's in American history.
The country with the strongest economy in the world is now out of control with no hope for the future.
When did Baltimore have a murder capital title 7x?
When did Baltimore have a murder capital title 7x?
This never happened. Baltimore never had the murder capital title until 2015 or '16. The 10s era Bmore is the worst era in the city's history, I dont know where he's looking, because at best Bmore has had that distinction just once subsequently...
Also Memphis gets exaggerated too, again facing the worst crime era in its history. Like Bmore, its never been particularly "safe", but Memphis is not historically bad as some other cities...
The Big City Triumvirate of murder capitals has swung back and forth between Nola and Motown more than anywhere else. St Louis had a few years in the 80s it jumped in there, and its 10s level of violence adds to its legacy. Other cities like DC and Rich are the only other cities of size to ever hit an 80/100 murder rate, the only other cities to come close are suburbs of large cities (like Gary, EStL) or small cities (Flint)...no other sizable cities have done that...
Other cities have violent legacies but not to the degree if these cities. Bmore was never a more dangerous city than DC or Rich until the 2010s when those cities began a marked turnaround, resurgence, and revitalization that Bmore hasn't seen...
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