By R.C.
Sun, Jan 2, 2022 8:48 p.m.
Deadliest US City Records Most Murders Since 1990s
2021 was Chicago's deadliest year in 25 years, according to new statistics. Nearly 800 homicides and over 3,500 ...
R.C.: Yeah, but Killadelphia ain't far behind.
Chief of Police old Brownie has a secret plan to cut the murder rate dramatically. But we are waiting. I guess the plan is so secret old Brownie doesn't even know what it is.
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ReplyDeleteI guess it depends on how one defines 'deadly' -- personally, it seems to me using the rate, e.g. homicides per 100k residents/population, is a better indication of 'deadliness' than the absolute number of homicides -- using that criterion, Chicago is, per the reckoning of CBS a few years ago, the 28th 'deadliest' city in the US:
Murder map: Deadliest U.S. cities -- Here are murder rates in 65 major U.S. cities (cities with greater than 100,000 residents) for 2019.
Generally, Baltimore (64.54/100k) and St Louis (58.27/100k) have the highest murder rates -- I doubt Chicago could´or would have jumped from #28 to #1 since 2019.
For comparison, per the World Bank (link) the murder rate in South Africa was approx 36/100k in 2017 -- looking at the CBS data, if SA was a US city it would be between #5 Dayton OH (34.18/100k), and #4 Detroit (41.45/100k).
black murder records are made to be broken...over and over again.
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