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We have to get it together as a society and find out what is really going on in our cities. Something is seriously wrong. Guns are not manufactured in Baltimore. Generally speaking people in St. Louis and Chicago are no more violent than they are in San Diego and Boston. What is going on?
It's already well known what's wrong. The system doesn't fail. That's all I'm gonna say.
7/5/2020 10:00 AM massive update coming this week for numerous cities
Weekend update for cities
New York City 188---on track for 330-340 this year it is around 2013-2016 numbers but shooting rate weekly is highest since early 2000s and 1998-1999
Los Angeles 144
Chicago 342---------nearly 70 shot, 13 fatal so far this weekend homicide rate is is almost par with 2016-2017 numbers with same time period in July but still below.
Philly 202---highest number since 2007
Houston 187---highest since 2005-2007
Dallas 98
Detroit 135
Saint Louis---7 homicides since July 3rd marks 108th of the year
Columbus, Ohio 66
Phoenix 63
New Orleans 86
Kansas City, MO 102
Indianapolis 111
Denver 41
Baltimore 167
DC 87
Jackson, MS 52
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 54---it up 42% from same time in 2019 June alone saw 14 homicides.
Pittsburgh 18
Shreveport, Louisiana 24
Newark, NJ 18
Toledo, Ohio 21
Akron, Ohio 15
Flint, MI 21
Norfolk, VA 16
York, PA 6
Allentown, PA 5
Harrisburg, PA 10----last year city had 14 homicides and 2018 14 as well
Scranton, PA 1
Altoona, PA 2
Lynn MA 4
LINCOLN, Neb 3
Irvington, NJ 4
Union City, NJ 2
New Albany, Indiana 4
Yonkers, New York 4
Huntington, WV 3
Cleveland last night with 20 shot and three killed. I was a couple blocks over from the W. 152nd double shooting and it sounded like an all out war zone at the time of the incident with fireworks in all directions and random gun shots, so had no clue there was a shooting there until today.
What do you think is going on that’s caused this dramatic increase?
Denver seemed to have a stretch of low homicides rates from 2007 to 2014.
Denver through it's history has had a moderate to moderately high homicide rate.
Denver is different than many other cities as the crime is much more widespread throughout the city than a majority of big cities but the intensity of violent crime in any one neighborhood is not like many other cities either.
Another big about, violent crime in the Denver area is it has unusually high amount of suburbs with high crime rates. The suburbs south of the city are some of the lowest violent crime in America, but several suburbs like Lakewood, Aurora, Sheridan, Northglenn, Commerce City have areas that have parts of that are just as violent as the worst parts of Denver.
I read about Boston on here and it seems like much of the violence in the Boston area is from two inner-city neighborhoods. Denver is polar opposite, the violence is very, very spread out without the intensity in any one neighborhood.
Even with the high numbers this year, no neighborhood has had more than 3 homicides but many, many have had 1 or 2.
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