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Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
3 The population of the city of Mobile, Alabama, includes 55,819 inhabitants from the jurisdiction of the Mobile County Sheriff's Department. 4 Because of changes in the state/ or local agency's reporting practices, figures are not comparable to previous years' data. 5 The FBI determined that the agency's data were underreported. Consequently ...
Superintendent Larry Snelling announced the city’s reduced violent-crime numbers for 2024 this week. Police reported an 8% reduction in homicides, a 7% reduction in shootings and a 4% reduction ...
The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people. [1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City.
Another violent Fourth of July weekend has the city grappling with what to do about gun violence. Violent crime is down in Chicago. A closer look at the stats reveals a less rosy reality.
Using information from the FBI, we have compiled the violent crime rate of each city per 10,000 residents.
For the 2008 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2000 decennial population counts and 2001 through 2007 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The city had seen 271 gun deaths as of June 24, a 12% reduction since the same time last year and 16% reduction of the past two years, according to data from the Chicago Police Department.