City/Metro Homicides of 2022 (state, largest, compared, place)

[Joakim3]

Originally Posted by DabOnEm

You aren't lying. My first and only time actually staying in Baltimore (not passing through) was a couple years ago when I had a conference at the Renaissance downtown. Of course the whole harbor area was cool and we walked around with no worries. But I wanted to venture off so I took my rental one evening and drove around and couldn't believe how it looked worse than the Wire. I kept thinking a car was going to fly out between those alleys and tbone me. As it got darker it felt like an anything goes area. Then I remembered I had virginia plates on my rental and decided to get out of the hoods I was rolling through and back to the hotel.

I really feel for the people who don't have a way out of living in those rundown areas. Baltimore needs to raze the rowhomes and put parks or urban farms in its place. Something has to be done to them.

The problem is most of the non-salvagable rowhomes have been razed.

Of the cities current 15-14,000 vacants, the city owns about 2,000. Recent audits shows of those remaning vacants, thousands upon thousands have been bought by predatory suburban owners for next to nothing in hopes of profit flipping in the last decade, but becuase Baltimore's property tax is still so astronomically high, you'd lose money by renovating them (50-100k on average), so they aren't upkept and are just being left "as is" in hopes gentrification will creep in.

Becuase of how rowhomes are constructed you have to knock down the entire block, not just cherry pick bad houses which you can't do as a lot of time there are families still living next door to the bombed out ones.

While obviosuly the city has a plethora of self made issues, state & suburban politcs play very ugly hands in why the city is in the shape it's in right now as you could renovate/rebuild every last vacant rowhome in the city for well under $2 billion dollars. While an expensive endouver for sure it's by no means insurmountable or financially unfeasible.

[AshbyQuin]

Originally Posted by Taggerung

It seems that Camden has really turned a new leaf. They might end up with a similar or even slightly lower homicide rate than my sleepy Virginia mountain town lol.

The city overhauled the police force in 2012 and brung in more officers budget increase.

The Camden I left is completely different to the one in 2022. Companies start relocating and adding jobs it can become a thriving edge city and cheap alternative to Philly in 20 years or so.

What city in VA?

[Taggerung]

Originally Posted by AshbyQuin

The city overhauled the police force in 2012 and brung in more officers budget increase.

The Camden I left is completely different to the one in 2022. Companies start relocating and adding jobs it can become a thriving edge city and cheap alternative to Philly in 20 years or so.

What city in VA?

Roanoke.

[TheProtege]

Dallas - 88
Fort Worth - 34
North Texas Region - 179

[Bluefox]

Originally Posted by number 4 mvp

Houston, the road rage shooting capital




https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/...ampaign=recent



Road Rage Shootings (2017-2022) by Place PLACE DEATHS INJURIES TOTAL WOUNDED DEATHS/INJURIES/TOTAL WOUNDED PER 100K
HOUSTON 30 120 150 1.30/5.21/6.51
CALIFORNIA 34 83 117 0.09/0.21/0.30
FLORIDA 34 100 134 0.16/0.46/0.62
NEW YORK 16 16 32 0.08/0.08/0.16
ILLINOIS 15 46 61 0.12/0.36/0.48

Wait… Houston is above the STATE of California for road rage shootings? That is frightening.

[Bluefox]

Originally Posted by number 4 mvp

Houston, the road rage shooting capital




https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/...ampaign=recent



Road Rage Shootings (2017-2022) by Place PLACE DEATHS INJURIES TOTAL WOUNDED DEATHS/INJURIES/TOTAL WOUNDED PER 100K
HOUSTON 30 120 150 1.30/5.21/6.51
CALIFORNIA 34 83 117 0.09/0.21/0.30
FLORIDA 34 100 134 0.16/0.46/0.62
NEW YORK 16 16 32 0.08/0.08/0.16
ILLINOIS 15 46 61 0.12/0.36/0.48

Wait… Houston is above the STATE of California for road rage shootings? AND Florida? That is frightening.

I would have guessed Florida would have been far and away the top place for road rage shootings/deaths because of how crazy people drive and are there.

[Shakeesha]

Nashville - 41

[number 4 mvp]

Originally Posted by Bluefox

Wait… Houston is above the STATE of California for road rage shootings? That is frightening.

Here's Houstons' rate compared to a dozen select cities-

Road Rage Shootings (2017-2022) by Place (SELECTED US CITIES) PLACE DEATHS INJURIES TOTAL WOUNDED DEATHS/INJURIES/TOTAL WOUNDED PER 100K
HOUSTON 30 120 150 1.30/5.21/6.51
NEW YORK CITY 12 12 24 0.14/0.14/0.27
LOS ANGELES 2 10 12 0.05/0.26/0.31
CHICAGO 9 32 41 0.33/1.17/1.49
PHILADELPHIA 5 13 18 0.31/0.81/1.12
WASHINGTON, DC 2 1 3 0.29/0.15/0.44
DETROIT 10 25 35 1.56/3.91/5.48
MEMPHIS 6 35 41 0.95/5.53/6.48
BALTIMORE 4 10 14 0.68/1.71/2.39
ALBUQUERQUE 12 8 20 2.13/1.42/3.54
OAKLAND 4 9 13 0.91/2.04/2.95
NEW ORLEANS 3 9 12 0.78/2.34/3.13
ST LOUIS 6 24 30 1.99/7.96/9.95


Other Texan cities-

Road Rage Shootings (2017-2022) by CITY IN TEXAS PLACE DEATHS INJURIES TOTAL WOUNDED DEATHS/INJURIES/TOTAL WOUNDED PER 100K
HOUSTON 30 120 150 1.30/5.21/6.51
SAN ANTONIO 11 45 56 0.77/3.14/3.90
DALLAS 14 17 31 1.07/1.30/2.38
AUSTIN 7 12 19 0.73/1.25/1.98
FORT WORTH 9 17 26 0.98/1.85/2.83
TEXAS 95 290 385 0.33/1.00/1.32

[Taggerung]

KCMO with 57 after seeing 4 homicides in 24 hours. St Louis has 54.

[number 4 mvp]

Originally Posted by Taggerung

KCMO with 57 after seeing 4 homicides in 24 hours. St Louis has 54.

Dang Los Angeles had 4 yesterday for Cinco de mayo and thats still not a good day for LA but 4 in a city of 500k is crazy... granted the 4 in LA are south of downtown..

LA- 130