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[crious]

I love it the muder capital is on there!!! CHICAGO baby

GOD I love my city...LMAO

Mikie

[TimmyJames1976]

hey...my city is making a serious push for the NEW murder capitol..PHILLY baby...w/over 50 shootings over a weekend a few weeks ago..woohooo

[Sijuki]

Originally posted by crious@Mar 30 2005, 12:10 AM
I love it the muder capital is on there!!!* CHICAGO baby

GOD I love my city...LMAO * * * * *

Mikie*

I thought Camden or Gary was the murder capital of the world... Chicago if I remember is way down on the list... they are well below Detroit even.

[TimmyJames1976]

I PERSONALLY THOUGHT IT WAS dc, BUT I DID HEAR CAMDEN AND GARY AS WELL...oops caps

[TheJake]

Washington DC has come top in a poll of the world's murder capitals.
A survey conducted by the UK Home Office of 20 European and nine North American cities put the US capital way out in front with a murder rate of 69.3 per 100,000 population.

That suggests Washington is about 170 times more dangerous than the Belgian capital, Brussels, which came bottom with 0.4 murders per 100,000.




Washington was a long way ahead of the second most murderous city, Philadelphia, which had a rate of 27.4.

The nine American cities in the survey all came in the top 12 of the poll. San Diego had the lowest rate with 8 homicides per 100,000.

Only three European cities came out worse.

Dangerous city

Moscow, contending with the rise of the Russian mafia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, was the most dangerous European city in the survey with 18.1 killings per 100,000. Helsinki and Lisbon also ranked highly.

London came fifth from bottom with an average of 2.1 cases of murder, infanticide or manslaughter per 100,000.

Belfast was the most dangerous UK city in the survey with a death rate of 4.4. Edinburgh's figure was 2.4.

The UK Home Secretary, Jack Straw, said it was one league table in which the UK was happy to fall near the bottom.

He said: \"Few people would have guessed that both Amsterdam (7.7) and Lisbon (9.7) have murder rates over three times higher than that of London.

\"Moreover despite the impact of zero tolerance policies, New York City's homicide rate - at 16.8 - is eight times London's.\"

that's all i could find

[TheJake]

this is from april 03

DC IS AGAIN 'MURDER CAPITAL', NEW STUDY SHOWS
- District had Highest Big-City Murder Rate in 2002
- DC Murder Rate Soared as Other Cities Saw Decline

(Washington, DC) Washington, DC is once again the nation's 'Murder Capital,\" according to a new study released today.

The study, conducted by SafeStreetsDC.com (www.SafeStreetsDC.com), a public safety watchdog group, compared the annual number of murders per 100,000 residents in American cities with populations greater than 500,000. This was the same standard used to determine DC's previous rank as murder capital. In compiling the data, the group relied on homicide statistics from the FBI and police department homicide units from around the country.

According to the numbers, DC outranked all major cities, and is again the nation's \"murder capital.\"

Immediately following DC on the list were Detroit (the winner in 2001), Baltimore, Memphis, Chicago and Philadelphia (in that order).

Other notable rankings included: Los Angeles (9), Dallas (10), Boston (18), San Francisco (24), and New York (25). Last on the list was Honolulu, ranked 32d with only 18 murders, in spite of its population of nearly 900,000.

DC, by comparison, with nearly 600,000 residents, had 262 murders last year.

DC's soaring homicide rate also defied national trends showing a slight drop in murders. In spite of the fact that the number of total murders in all 32 cities dropped 1.2% in 2002 as compared to 2001, DC saw a nearly 13% increase in its murder rate in 2002, giving it the 6th-highest increase among the cities surveyed.

\"Nationally the murder rate hardly changed, yet in DC it soared last year,\" said John Aravosis, cofounder of SafeStreetsDC.com and co-author of the study along with Matt Forman. \"DC officials clearly can't blame the city's increasing murder rate on the worsening economy or other national trends since most other cities facing the same pressures did not see the same increase in homicides.\"

The largest jump in the 2002 murder rate was in Columbus, which saw a nearly 60% increase last year, immediately followed by San Jose (+27%), Tucson (+21%), Jacksonville (+20%), and Denver (+18%).

On the other end of the spectrum, El Paso had the greatest decline in its murder rate last year (-30%). The percentage change in the murder rate of other notable cities in 2002 include: Los Angeles (+12%), Detroit (+2%), Baltimore (-1%), Chicago (-3%), Philadelphia (-7%), Boston (-8%), New York (-10%), and Dallas (-20%).

The study also cast doubt on another factor often used by DC officials to explain the city's increasing crime rate: the demands of Homeland Security.

\"We were surprised to find that New York had a 10% drop in homicides last year, as DC officials often blame the District's increasing crime rate on the demands of post-September 11 security,\" Aravosis said. \"Yet New York, which surely faces as great a threat as Washington, has managed to improve its murder rate.\"

The study also found that in 2001 DC was the murder capital \"runner up.\"

This year, according to the DC Metropolitan Police Department, murder in the District is up over 21% from last year, and at the current pace, Washington could see 325 murders in 2003 as compared to last year's 262. (Source: Washington Post)

\"We were the murder capital runner-up in 2001, we won the title in 2002, and 2003 is already being heralded as a record year for death in the District,\" said Aravosis. \"All of this proves that this year's 21% jump in homicides is hardly a temporary fluke. It's been building for years.\"

[TimmyJames1976]

woohoooo i told ya philly is making a push...come on, we can't win a major sporting event, so at least lets get this title

[agriadam]

Well gary is practicly part of chicago it's just in Indiana...

Camden is the most Dangerouse city taken the spot from Detroit
N.J. City Deemed Most Dangerous

and per capita Chicago's Murder rate is actually very low sorry I can't site that source but I remember reading that somewhere

[my retro career]

Hehe - I live 5 miles from Camden....maybe even less....

[mowark]

i'm actually surprised austin tx isn't on that list. i know for sure that it has been ranked #1 in america by usa today as well as several other publications. it also is consistently in the top 5 for most lists. i love it here

[mermaidnz]

HELL, im shocked.

new zealand did pretty damn well on that list!! auckland number 5?? but i hate living here?! must be better then i think.

and tokyo is only 30something...