DrBanneker
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The guys at Crimalytics (Jeff Asher on Twitter) track murder rates by city as data is available here: YTD Murder Comparison - Dashboards - AH Datalytics
They have mostly final 2023 numbers out. Overall it seems homicides in the US were down 12% in 2023 vs. 2022 but there is a wide variance over what happened by city. I pulled the top medium to large cities (at least 100 murders in 2023) to show the best and worst. Summary: some big notorious cities like Baltimore, N.O., and Philly did a lot better but DC as well as Memphis are
To note: only 7 cities with homicides over 100 had increases this year. Some patterns emerged for smaller cities though. Almost every moderate sized city in NC and VA except the Norfolk had double digit homicide percent increases (Greensboro up 76%, Newport News up 45% and Hampton up 20%
). Not sure what our mid-Atlantic brehs are doing.
To be honest, I don't know how these compare to 2019 numbers for every city. Philly was 353 in 2019 so they are almost back to pre-COVID levels though not as low as say 2010-2013. Baltimore is way below 2019 when they had 349 homicides. New Orleans not even close to the 119 in 2019 which was almost a 50 year low. I don't have time to check them all right now though.
Top 10 Most Improved
Top 7 Backsliders
They have mostly final 2023 numbers out. Overall it seems homicides in the US were down 12% in 2023 vs. 2022 but there is a wide variance over what happened by city. I pulled the top medium to large cities (at least 100 murders in 2023) to show the best and worst. Summary: some big notorious cities like Baltimore, N.O., and Philly did a lot better but DC as well as Memphis are
To note: only 7 cities with homicides over 100 had increases this year. Some patterns emerged for smaller cities though. Almost every moderate sized city in NC and VA except the Norfolk had double digit homicide percent increases (Greensboro up 76%, Newport News up 45% and Hampton up 20%
). Not sure what our mid-Atlantic brehs are doing.To be honest, I don't know how these compare to 2019 numbers for every city. Philly was 353 in 2019 so they are almost back to pre-COVID levels though not as low as say 2010-2013. Baltimore is way below 2019 when they had 349 homicides. New Orleans not even close to the 119 in 2019 which was almost a 50 year low. I don't have time to check them all right now though.
Top 10 Most Improved
| City | 2023 Homicides | Percent Change |
| San Antonio, TX | 159 | -34% |
| New Orleans, LA | 193 | -27% |
| Philadelphia, PA | 383 | -25% |
| Baltimore, MD | 259 | -23% |
| Atlanta, GA | 133 | -22% |
| Milwaukee, WI | 169 | -21% |
| St. Louis, MO | 158 | -21% |
| Houston, TX | 339 | -21% |
| Indianapolis, IN | 171 | -19% |
| Detroit, MI | 252 | -18% |
Top 7 Backsliders
| City | 2023 Homicides | Percent Change |
| Washington, DC | 274 | +36% |
| Memphis, TN | 341 | +27% |
| Dallas, TX | 246 | +15% |
| Kansas City, MO | 182 | +7% |
| Columbus, OH | 148 | +6% |
| Nashville, TN | 109 | 0% |
| Oakland, CA | 120 | 0% |
