That doesn’t explain Michigan. We’re still high. Detroit and Flint mess with the averages.
Climate change. It's impacting MI ahead of the other states.
As interesting and informative as the map shows rates of crime, there is a difference. Definitely the two cities mentioned really distort the overall picture. I went to the statistics of our American sister city, Sault Ste. Michigan. Zero homicides in 2014 and as far as I know, none in this year. Somehow that massive bridge over the Mackinac Straights brings one to another world. In fairness, the lower peninsula below the bridge seems very, very crime free.
Sometimes statistics are not always the whole picture.(Excuse the ramble).