City Murder Rates

[NYC4Life]

New York City

As of April 25th, 2010:

2010 Total: 143 (Up 20.2% From 2009)

2009 Total: 119



2009 Population: 8,414,335

Murder Rate per 100K: 1.69

[NYC4Life]

Ciudad Juarez, MX

As of May 4th, 2010:

May 4th: 11

May Total: 26

April Total: 188

2010 Total: 859



2009 Population: 1,512,354

Murder Rate per 100K: 56.79

[Darkoshvilli]

Montreal (1,906,000) - 11 murders - 0.57/100k

Same time last year there was 7.

[Westsidelife]

Los Angeles, as of 5/1/10...

2010 -- 95
2009 -- 92
2008 -- 137

A 3% increase and 31% decline from 2009 and 2008, respectively.

[lextown]

Lexington KY is at 3 after a man purposally ran over a cop and it doesnt say what happened when they arrested the suspect but he got four 3rd degree assault charges and one 2nd degree assault charge plus many more charges.

[Paule]

Milwaukee now at 24. Not much to this story, just that a man shot in a parking lot.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/92855864.html

Also, Minneapolis now at 14 as the result of two separate shotings.
http://www.startribune.com/local/928...aPc:_Yyc:aUUsA

[SlidellWx]

Two murders in the Seventh Ward neighborhood last night brings the total in New Orleans to 76 for the year. There were 61 murders at this time last year.

City of New Orleans (pop. 358,000) neighborhood breakdown is...

St. Claude(pop. 8,624) = 15
Seventh Ward(pop. 12,762) = 9
Central City(pop. 14,414) = 6
Florida Area(pop. 1,317) = 4
Little Woods(pop. 30,312) = 4
Treme'/Lafitte(pop. 5,720) = 3
Behrman(pop. 10,421) = 3
Mid-City(pop. 14,996) = 3
St. Bernard Area(pop. 1,441) = 2
Dixon(pop. 1,468) = 2
Dillard(pop. 4,352) = 2
Viavant/Venetian Isles(pop. 1,077) = 2
Village de l'est(pop. 8,513) = 2
Tulane/Gravier(pop. 2,878) = 2
Leonidas(pop. 8,446) = 1
Hollygrove(pop. 4,755) = 1
Fischer Project(pop. 1,782) = 1
Irish Channel(pop. 4,203) = 1
Holy Cross(pop. 2,574) = 1
St. Roch(pop. 7,843) = 1
Bayou St. John(pop. 4,246) = 1
Algiers Point(pop.2,629) = 1
East Riverside(pop. 3,136) = 1
McDonough(pop. 2,769) = 1
Gentilly Woods(pop. 2,590) = 1
Milan(pop. 5,906) = 1
Desire Area(pop. 1,438) = 1
Read Blvd. East(pop. 6,070) = 1
B.W. Cooper(pop. 1,170) = 1
St. Anthony(pop. 2,986) = 1
Pines Village(pop. 3,265) = 1

http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/Pepper2000/83373

Metro (pop. 1,201,090) breakdown is...

Orleans Parish = 79 (3 justifiable)
Jefferson Parish = 23
St. Tammany Parish = 3
St. John the Baptist Parish = 2
St. Charles Parish = 1

2 killed in separate 7th Ward shootings
By The Times-Picayune
May 06, 2010, 6:48AM

Two men were slain in separate shootings in the 7th Ward late Wednesday and early Thursday, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

One of the murders occurred in the 2400 block of Onzaga Street about 11:30 p.m. The other happened at 2:30 a.m. about a mile away in the 1900 block of Pauger Street, said officer Hilal Williams, an NOPD spokeswoman.

Neither of the victims' names was available Thursday morning. The victim on Onzaga Street was 47 years old. Williams said investigators did not know the Pauger Street victim's age.

Officers found the 47-year-old while responding to a 911 call about shots being fired. They found the victim lying in the street, bleeding from bullet wounds to his body. New Orleans EMS paramedics pronounced him dead soon after, Williams said.

On Pauger Street, officers responding to reports of a man down found the victim lying in front of a home. Williams said he had been shot once in the body, and he died before paramedics could treat him.

Investigators did not provide details about suspects or motives in either killing.

[KevinFromTexas]

I'm not sure this constitutes a murder, but we'll see.

Pending investigation

Man charged in beating death, causing flesh-eating bacteria - 5/6
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...ing_death.html

[Paule]

Milwaukee now at 25.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/93111884.html

[MIAMIpaintball]

miami dade is at 82, after a 18yearold was shot and killed at a park playing basketball

[scoob]

Youngstown (12) homicides one justified

pop, 70,000

Warren (4) Homicides
Double Homicide two men found shot to death

Pop: 43,000

[nito]

Originally Posted by nito

Crickeys - over the last twelve months there were 119 murders in London - a decrease of 24.2%. Going by the above figure, there were nearly as many murders in New York over the last three months as there has been in London over the last 12 months!

London
The 12 month rolling murder rate (for the period March 2009 - March 2010) in London now stands at 117. Down 24.5%.

It would be interesting to know why murder rates have shot up in many US cities - perhaps a social 'lag' from the recession and unemployment?

[mcfinley]

Originally Posted by nito

London
It would be interesting to know why murder rates have shot up in many US cities - perhaps a social 'lag' from the recession and unemployment?

I think so. It's curious that the rise in violent crime has coincided with the beginning of the economic turnaround, a good six months after the nadir in the job market. For the last couple years, everyone in the country has been weathering the recession together; I've noticed people have lent a lot of support to those in their community. Now that it has been publicized that the economy is turning the corner, I wonder if the least skilled 'have nots' are feeling frustrated, left out, and abandoned in the turn-around. I have no evidence whether this is the case, it's just a hypothesis.

[tech12]

21 for SF after a fatal shooting in the Richmond District:

SF man, 18, fatally shot off Geary Blvd.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

(05-08) 13:58 PDT San Francisco -- San Francisco police are investigating the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man in the Anza Vista area just off Geary Boulevard.

Police spokesman Boaz Mariles said officers were called to the scene of a shooting at about 11:30 p.m. Friday at Geary Blvd., and Lyon Street and found a man down with multiple gunshots. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:40 this morning.

The San Francisco Medical Examiner identified the man as Ilya Yurchenkov of San Francisco.

Mariles said a male suspect in the shooting is in custody.

-Chronicle Staff Report

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...#ixzz0nNy6Ob4w

we also had a "suspicious" death at civic center BART station yesterday, in which a Berkeley man was found dead...no other details were given.

edit: turns out the suspicious death victim was a 22 year-old UC Berkeley grad student. He was found at the bottom of an escalator, with a cut on the back of his head, and "massive internal injuries." Morning commuters walked past his body for a while, thinking he was a passed out homeless guy, before anyone noticed something was wrong.

[tablemtn]

Vancouver's official current count is at four, after a woman's death on April 19 was officially classified as a homicide (though it was suspected of being such at the time it happened, too):

Police lay murder charge in April 19 death

This is a significant reduction from this time last year, when Vancouver had 13 homicides.

[lextown]

Oakland is at 34

Omaha is at 14

Little Rock is at 12

Hartford is at 12

Pawtucket RI is at 1

Boston is at 18

Providence RI is at 7

[Paule]

Milwaukee's starting to heat up, now at 26.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/93229449.html

[tech12]

Oakland is at 34 after two men were killed and four more injured in a shooting.

Hayward also had a double homicide/shooting last night, though i don't know what their total is.

edit: that's a total of 9 murders for Hayward so far this year

[ChiMIchael]

Originally Posted by MayorOfChicago

The actual murder rate has been pretty steady since 2004. Actually, it's been extremely steady for the most part. Violent crime though has continued its overall decline from year to year, but has slowed compared to the 1990's.

I can't imagine this city in the early 90's!!

1991: 90,522 Up from year before
1992: 84,261 down 7%
1994: 78,352 down 7%
1996: 67,498 down 14%
1998: 62,947 down 7%
1999: 50,524 down 20%
2000: 48,273 down 5%
2001: 46,685 down 3%
2002: 45,961 down 2%
2003: 39,575 down 14%
2004: 36,786 down 7%
2005: 36,207 down 2%
2006: 35,290 down 3%
2007: 35,021 down 1%
2008: 35,764 up 2%
2009: 33,486 down 6%

2010 through March; down 13% from same period in 2009.

You realized this happened after the city had the housing projects torn down.

[novawolverine]

DC has 29 as of May 7.