By 1995, firearm homicide rates among persons 15 through 24 years old ranged from 6.5 and 7.3 per 100000 in the nonmetropolitan and small counties, respectively, to 9.6 and 13.3 per 100000 in the fringe and medium strata, respectively, to 33.5 per 100000 in the core stratum. During 1987 ...
Associated PressFeb. 5, 2025 The Woman Charged in a Vermont Border Patrol Officer's Death Has Been Ordered Held Without Bail A Washington state woman has been ordered held without bail in connection with the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont ...
CONTEXT: Homicide rates for persons 15 through 24 years old began to decline between 1993 and 1994, but recent trends in homicide rates by mechanism of homicide and urbanization group have not been described. OBJECTIVE: To examine homicide trends from 1987 through 1995 for persons 15 through 24...
Memphis has long suffered from disproportionately high homicide rates Associated PressDec. 8, 2022 Historic Views of American Cities An expansive look at a growing nation from the Library of Congress' archives. Oct. 21, 2022 Ditch Cars for Open – and Equal – Streets Car-centric streets are ...
Philadelphia, for example, a city of some 1.5 million people, has shattered its 1990 homicide record (500) – the so-called ‘City of Brotherly Love’ marked its 521st killing as of December 6, an increase of 13% from 2020. “It’s terrible to every morning get up and… look at the...
Major cities typically contend with higher homicide rates than rural towns, posing an ongoing challenge for local law enforcement. kali9 / Getty Images The title "murder capital of the U.S." often sparks intense debate, but identifying which city holds this grim distinction requires more than ...
Due to Katrina and the shifting populace has made crime rates difficult to nail down, but even using the most generous estimates, New Orleans has ranked among the nation's most murderous cities for several years. Richmond, Calif., a city of nearly 103,000 that sits north of Oakland, has ...
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"So it’s hard when cities like Detroit and Baltimore are still trying to get over the effects of the pandemic and really create more economic status for people, while also dealing with an uptick in homicide rates." The Detroit Police Department released a statement that said: "The ...
Violent crime is up by nearly 4 percent across the US, while seven cities drove the biggest single-year increase in homicide rates since 1971, says a newly released annual crime report that is causing ripples ahead of the first presidential debate. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) ...