City Murder Rates

[BigDan35]

Las Vegas: 70 as of 5/17

[KevinFromTexas]

Pending.

They're treating it as a homicide until they determine what happened.

Authorities: Body found in Bastrop County may be result of homicide - 5/13

[tablemtn]

Portland has 3 murders after what looks like a domestic violence incident in a home on the east side of the city:

Police: Woman found dead in NE Glisan home victim of homicide

[Darkoshvilli]

Montreal has 3

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Los Angeles as of 5/14/16

"only" 12 murders from 4/17 to 5/14. Nice slow down and if we can have one more month like this, it will put us on pace to be even with the last couple of years.

2016 - 100 (402 shooting victims)
2015 - 93
2014 - 99

Chicago, on the other had, is pretty much out of control right now... Just posted at LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...523-story.html

Over 1400 shot already this year and 244 murders... Last year at this time, the numbers were 904 shot and 157 murdered.

[Djesus777]

Originally Posted by Darkoshvilli

Montreal has 3

Aren't we still at 2? or are you counting the 1 suspicious death as well?

[KevinFromTexas]

Police: Fatal shooting at H-E-B was during drug deal gone wrong - 5/20

2016 Austin Murders

| Austin 7 | Travis Co. 7 | Bastrop Co. 0 | Caldwell Co. 0 | Hays Co. 2 | Williamson Co. 0 | Metro 9 |

Metro totals:
Shooting - 6
Stabbing - 0
Strangled - 1
Suffocation - 0
Throwing (of child) - 0
Beating - 0
Vehicular - 0
Blunt force trauma - 1
Unlisted cause - 0

Austin totals:
Downtown - 0
Central Austin - 1
East Austin - 1
North Austin - 4
Northeast Austin - 0
Northwest Austin -0
South Austin - 0
Southeast Austin - 1
Southwest Austin - 0
West Austin - 0

Victims
Male - 8
Female - 1
Unlisted - 0

| Jan 1 | Feb 1 | Mar 1 | Apr 3 | May 3 | Jun 0 | Jul 0 | Aug 0 | Sep 0 | Oct 0 | Nov 0 | Dec 0 |

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| Mon 0 | Tue 2 | Wed 0 | Thur 0 | Fri 4 | Sat 2 | Sun 1 |

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Murder cases

1 dead - Police seeking gunman after fatal shooting overnight in North Austin - 1/22

1 dead - San Marcos police charge roommate in shooting death of 20-year-old - 2/5

1 dead - Fatal car accident in East Austin investigated as homicide - 3/1

1 dead - Police identify 18-year-old killed in Kyle drive-by shooting - 4/2

1 dead - UT police investigating death of woman found on campus as homicide - 4/5

1 dead - Suspect named in killing of 'Junior the Wendy’s Guy’ - 4/11

1 dead - Officials: One dead, 3 injured in North Austin shooting - 5/8

1 dead - Police seeking murder suspect after deadly North Austin shooting - 5/14

1 dead - Police: Fatal shooting at H-E-B was during drug deal gone wrong - 5/20

Pending cases

Body recovered from Lady Bird Lake - 2/1

Police investigating suspicious death in Northwest Austin - 4/8

Authorities: Body found in Bastrop County may be result of homicide - 5/13

Man’s body found in Brushy Creek, Round Rock police say - 5/26

Austin area population

City: 912,791 (July 1, 2014 estimate) - source: US Census Bureau
Metro: 2,000,860 (July 1, 2015 estimate) - source: US Census Bureau
Travis County: 1,176,558 (2015 estimate) - source: US Census Bureau

Area - City: 297 square miles (2010) - US Census Bureau
Area - Metro: 4,285 square miles - Wikipedia
Area - Travis County: 1,023 square miles - Wikipedia

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Previous years
2015 - 19
2014 - 31
2013 - 25
2012 - 32
2011 - 28
2010 - 31
2009 - 23
2008 - 24
2007 - 30
2006 - 20
2005 - 26

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5/20/2016 - | Austin 7 | Travis Co. 7 | Bastrop Co. 0 | Caldwell Co. 0 | Hays Co. 2 | Williamson Co. 0 | Metro 9 |


5/20/2015 - | Austin 7 | Travis Co. 9 | Bastrop Co. 2 | Caldwell Co. 0 | Hays Co. 1 | Williamson Co. 4 | Metro 16 |

[Xing]

You only have 7? St. Louis has 61, and Chicago has had 244 fatal shootings, but I don't know what the number of homicides are.

[Darkoshvilli]

Originally Posted by Djesus777

Aren't we still at 2? or are you counting the 1 suspicious death as well?

Yeah, I read that it was deemed a homicide.

[tech12]

SF is at 17, after a fatal shooting in SOMA. A body was also found in Golden gate park, but no word yet on whether it was a murder or not.

[lextown]

San Bernardino CA is at 27.

Stockton CA is at 20. Up from 10 this time last year.

Winston-Salem NC is at 7. Up from 3 this time last year.

Syracuse NY is at 9.

Memphis is at 91.

Madison WI is at 6.

[lextown]

Ottawa is at 8.

Edmonton is at 22.

[mrnyc]

nyc

through 5/15/16

murder
2016 = 109
2015 = 123
% chg = -11.4%

FYI - other major crimes are a mixed bag, some up, some down

historical perspectives
murder
2015 vs 1990 = -84%
2015 vs 2001 = -45.8%

[KevinFromTexas]

This is most likely a drowning. We've had some pretty good steady rains these past 2 to 3 weeks.

Man’s body found in Brushy Creek, Round Rock police say - 5/26

[creamcityleo79]

Milwaukee: 44 as of 5/23/16

Edit: 38 of these crimes meet the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting criteria for homicides


http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/M...367120481.html

[lextown]

Lincoln NE is at 7.

Winston-Salem NC is at 8.

Baltimore MD is at 108 after 11 people killed in 3 days. http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/po...ll&article=all

[pico44]

Why New York is safer than Chicago

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by pico44

Why New York is safer than Chicago

bratton just visited there and other cities to try to figure out why nyc's rates have dropped and other cities are struggling or starting to struggle with rising crime and murder rates again.

[Gresto]

Toronto closes out the month with 30. Not a good year for homicides, but the past two weeks have been quiet.

[toddguy]

Columbus, Ohio at 35 homicides as of 6/01/2016. 2015 population estimate: 850,106.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...ing-death.html

Make that 36.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...east-side.html