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One of the highest totals in the city's history. Only 4 shy of the record set in the 1975. In the 00's, the city had an average 7-10 murders a year, but as of recently it has been averaging 16-20. Throughout 80's-90's it stayed consistently around 8-12 murders a year; 1991 at 14 murders is basically the low-end average of the last 5 years in Hampton. To my knowledge, 2015-present is Hampton's deadliest period ever, but it could be the 70's as it is difficult to get data on that to verify.
Newport News, VA - 24 (13.2/100k)
Seems to be the magic number. It's literally had 24-25 for 5 years straight. Usually it's always higher than Hampton, but not this time. It is still far more violent overall and the violent crime rate has drastically risen, which is more of concern.
Portsmouth, VA - 35 (37.3/100k)
Inching closer to the record set in 92, and has officially recorded its highest murder rate in history. By far the most violent city in Virginia now. At least 3-4 teens have been shot and killed on Elm Ave alone this year, in the Prentis Park area. It was reported several years ago that around 30% of all violent crime in Portsmouth happened in this small 1-mile radius surrounding Elm Ave. As Portsmouth has a violent crime rate of 920/100k, for such a small area to bear 30% of all that is ridiculous.
Norfolk, VA - 56 (23.5/100k)
Much higher than usual for Norfolk, but still a far cry from the numbers put up during the 90's that were in the 70-80 range. Some high profile incidents happened, notably the kid who shot five and killed three women in the soon-to-be demolished Young Terrace projects for what appeared to be some sort of jealous rage.
Petersburg has been the most violent city in Virginia for about a half-decade now. This year it's had 16 murders, that's a rate of 48.48 and if it were the same size as Portsmouth it would have about 47-48 murders instead of P-Town's 35...
Richmond historically is Virginia's most violent city by a substantial margin, and ceded that title to Petersburg a half-decade ago. Richmond had a sharp decrease in violent crime beginning 2006 that plateaued in the mid-10s, and has risen within the last half-decade as most other cities have---->and still is only about half as bad as it was at peak violence and more dangerous than any place in Tidewater. This year Rich has had 79 Homicides for a rate of 34.8...
Norfolk had one year it cracked 80 homicides ('91), also the only year it cracked 30 per 100k. Historically it and Portsmouth have traded off on which city was more violent...
181 in St. Louis. 58% clearance that is much better than last years 33%. I still believe that if there was a combined police department with St. Louis County with combined funding would make a huge difference with the crime rate.
Houston's, apparently at 458, which seems like a dramatic rise from last month (over 100, in early November???). But my guess is that their using Zip Codes and not city limits which would include more unincorporated Harris County homicides.
181 in St. Louis. 58% clearance that is much better than last years 33%. I still believe that if there was a combined police department with St. Louis County with combined funding would make a huge difference with the crime rate.
It will only make the numbers look better. It won't prevent crimes from happening.
Petersburg has been the most violent city in Virginia for about a half-decade now. This year it's had 16 murders, that's a rate of 48.48 and if it were the same size as Portsmouth it would have about 47-48 murders instead of P-Town's 35...
Richmond historically is Virginia's most violent city by a substantial margin, and ceded that title to Petersburg a half-decade ago. Richmond had a sharp decrease in violent crime beginning 2006 that plateaued in the mid-10s, and has risen within the last half-decade as most other cities have---->and still is only about half as bad as it was at peak violence and more dangerous than any place in Tidewater. This year Rich has had 79 Homicides for a rate of 34.8...
Norfolk had one year it cracked 80 homicides ('91), also the only year it cracked 30 per 100k. Historically it and Portsmouth have traded off on which city was more violent...
Petersburg may have the higher murder rate (extremely high one at that), but Portsmouth still holds the crown for highest violent crime rate overall at 895/100k, which is far above everywhere else today. Much less than the 90's but only because of the drastic decline in robberies; assaults have actually gotten worse. Petersburg may be second.
Richmond's violent crime rate (374/100k) has fallen to half of Norfolk's rate (663/100k) and beneath Newport News' as well (605/100k). It's no longer the same Richmond that we know from the 90's to mid 00's, and is on the trajectory of becoming quite safe and will have a legendary turnaround akin to NYC if they can get the murders under control. It has lots of upward momentum and is gentrifying at an alarming rate, violence will continue to decline; especially once they go through with the plans to redevelop all of the projects like Whitcomb, Gilpin, Mosby, and Hillside.
It will only make the numbers look better. It won't prevent crimes from happening.
I personally think St Louis County has better Law Enforcement. Having a better organized attack on crime and crime prevention policies would make the area much safer.
County of Los Angeles on pace to record close to 935 homicides in 2021.
The trend appears to have persisted through 2021 in some large cities, including Los Angeles, where homicides are up 46.7% compared with 2019, while shooting victims are up 51.4%, according to data from the Los Angeles Police Department. As of the end of November, there had been 359 homicides in L.A. in 2021, compared with 355 in all of 2020. There have not been more homicides in one year since 2008, which ended with 384.
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