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DC'a murder _rate_ is 19th in the country per Wikipedia, and 1/4 of #1 St. Louis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate http

DC'a murder _rate_ is 19th in the country per Wikipedia, and 1/4 of #1 St. Louis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... The pace of muders in DC this year should put it somewhere around the mid 1960's numbers of around 150: https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/dccrime.htm https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/dccrime.htm So... there are the raw numbers. Want to adjust your position on that "disinfo campaign?"

jeffbee 1y ago
Just to be consistent with my sibling comment: it is improper to conclude that St. Louis is the most murdery place in America. The city of St. Louis metro population is 3 million people, who travel to the city proper to murder each other even though only 280k people live in those political boundaries.
bitshiftfaced 1y ago
Here's a list of cities with per capita homicide rates: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_r... I agree that it would be misleading to judge D.C. based on being at a 30 year low. Of the cities with the highest homicide rates, only Philadelphia has a higher population and rate. It's fair to say that there are other cities close in population. But it's clear that D.C. has a abnormally high homicide rate when compared to all of the other U.S. cities of its size or larger. Even if you only compared it to all other U.S. cities within, say, 100k of population, it's still at a very high percentile.
- kevstev 1y ago
  You are right it's misleading to say DC is at a 30 year low- the data I posted shows that it is actually at a 60 year low. It's not clear at all that it has an abnormally high homicide rate at all. DC is not even listed on the link you provided- the one I provided has cities of equivalent size.
  - bitshiftfaced 1y ago
    You can find it in the list under the heading 'Other statistics".

jeffbee 1y ago

Just to be consistent with my sibling comment: it is improper to conclude that St. Louis is the most murdery place in America. The city of St. Louis metro population is 3 million people, who travel to the city proper to murder each other even though only 280k people live in those political boundaries.

bitshiftfaced 1y ago

Here's a list of cities with per capita homicide rates: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_r... I agree that it would be misleading to judge D.C. based on being at a 30 year low. Of the cities with the highest homicide rates, only Philadelphia has a higher population and rate. It's fair to say that there are other cities close in population. But it's clear that D.C. has a abnormally high homicide rate when compared to all of the other U.S. cities of its size or larger. Even if you only compared it to all other U.S. cities within, say, 100k of population, it's still at a very high percentile.

kevstev 1y ago
You are right it's misleading to say DC is at a 30 year low- the data I posted shows that it is actually at a 60 year low. It's not clear at all that it has an abnormally high homicide rate at all. DC is not even listed on the link you provided- the one I provided has cities of equivalent size.
- bitshiftfaced 1y ago
  You can find it in the list under the heading 'Other statistics".