"Bodymore, Murdaland" was what cable series The Wire. The Guardian tried to make "Bulletmore, Murderland" a thing. "Mobtown" and "Crabtown" are also in the mix. The Town Fathers prefer "Charm City."
Posted on 08/06/2022 10:36:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I can’t believe it—Detroit didn’t make the list.
Most large cities have the vast majority of their crime take place in about 10% of the city. IIRC, most of Chicago’s came within 8% of the city.
“Mr. Weisburd said that in his studies of larger cities, about 1 percent of the streets produce 25 percent of the crime and about 5 percent of the streets produce 50 percent of the crime.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/25/most-murders-occurred-in-5-percent-of-countys-says/
When travelling across the US, I stop at least 25 miles outside any major city to get gas...then stay on the Interstate until I’m past the large city. I don’t know which neighborhoods are safe so I avoid the entire mess.
I live in a suburb outside of Birmingham city limits and can testify of high crime rates in the city. However, all of the suburbs around Birmingham are flourishing. I call Birmingham a donut because it is the hole in the middle with all of the bread on the outside.
It would be interesting to do the statistics “per 100k black residents”.All you have to do is look at black population density in major cities, compare it to overall murder rates / 100K residents, and you'll see the direct correlation: List of U.S. cities with large Black populations
That data is certainly available and has probably been analyzed. However, it will likely never be made public.
There is a difference.
I’m not surprised either. New Orleans is an established democrat hellhole...
Nashville ahead of Memphis? Would not have guessed that one.
A large what? Don’t be a fool. Stop slandering people because you think it’s witty or cute. It’s neither, nor is it NEWSPEAK, like some other fool tries to convince himself here in Freeperville.
And NO is a “chocolate city.”
The “per 100K” would vary depending on how the city limits are defined. For example, NYC is a pretty broad spectrum.
The US Census Bureau defines what cities are. The five boroughs of NYC are NYC and have been since 1898.
I thought the murder statistics table was referring to Rochester, NY. I don’t think Rochester, MN is as bad as that craphole of Rochester, NY. No way.
Rochester MN with population of 121,000 dos not meet the size criteria noted. Rochester, NY has a population of 211,000.
This chart would have been a lot more useful if the population of said cites were listed for context.
From the original source chart:
YTD Murder Comparison
2022 YTD 4,516
2021 YTD 4,642
YTD % Change -2.7%
It does not say if this is all US murders or just with in the charted data.
https://www.ahdatalytics.com/dashboards/ytd-murder-comparison/
Got a son in Maryland. We call Baltimore, Balti-Mordor.
Memphis at 28.52 should have been third and wasn’t even on the list.
The deal with Colorado Springs is driven by the way the statistics are shown. This is for the first half of this year and a multiple murder or a couple drives it way up. If you look at a trailing average of five years you would get an entire different story.
Look at this chart showing Colorado Springs year-by-year.
https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/co/colorado-springs/murder-homicide-rate-statistics
Jumps from 7.0 to 3.0 and all over year-by-year through 2018. I read a book 50 years ago called “how to Lie with Statistics” and it taught me a lot.
You take the last five years shown in the chart and average 2015 to 2018 and you get a rate of 5.74 which is more indicative. As I posted earlier, this same site gives a 2018 rate that would have made them third place but since this first six months has a low incidence, they don’t even appear.
I live in a small county where the black population and slightly more than the white population and the murder rate and crime rate is low. Urban compaction is the biggest problem, not race.
I was just about to post that I question the accuracy of any list that didn’t include Memphis. I can’t remember a time when Memphis wasn’t at least in the top 5 of murder rates yet it’s not even on the list. If the authors can’t get something as obvious as that correct then their entire article has to be dismissed as bunk.
"Bodymore, Murdaland" was what cable series The Wire. The Guardian tried to make "Bulletmore, Murderland" a thing. "Mobtown" and "Crabtown" are also in the mix. The Town Fathers prefer "Charm City."
so are parts of the other cities listed. It would be interesting to look at the murder rates in the areas or neighborhoods according to demographics.
I caught that, as well.
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