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Even with homicide rates in Detroit headed in the right direction, it still has one of the highest homicide rates per capita of any city in the U.S. behind Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tennessee ...
Detroit is on pace to record its lowest number of homicides in 57 years, according to city and county officials.
The FBI web site also recommends against using its data to judge how effective law enforcement agencies are, since there are many factors other than law enforcement that influence crime rates. [5] In November 2007, the executive board of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) went further than the FBI itself, and approved a resolution ...
In 2017, there were 267 murders in Detroit - down from 303 in 2016. The violent crime rate of 2,057 per 100,000 was the second highest in the nation after St. Louis. It was roughly ten times the average rate of the suburban counties of metro Detroit which had violent crime rates below the national average of 394 per 100,000.
As of Nov. 30, Detroit recorded 48 fewer homicides than in 2022. If the year ends without any significant incidents, the Motor City could record its safest year in six decades in terms of homicide.
This is a list of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate. It is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year; a homicide rate of 4 in a population of 100,000 would mean 4 murders a year, or 0.004% out of the total.
The new data indicates the prevention efforts many cities are implementing to deter violent crime are working effectively. Detroit recorded the second-lowest number of homicides since 1966 after ...
[202] [203] The homicide rate in 2022 was the third highest in the nation at 50.0 per 100,000. [204] Downtown typically has lower crime than national and state averages. [205] According to a 2007 analysis, Detroit officials note about 65 to 70 percent of homicides in the city were drug related, [206] with the rate of unsolved murders roughly 70 ...