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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.
English: A line chart of the crime rate in the United States, as reported in the Uniform Crime Reports from 1970 to 2001. The chart highlights the period after 1994 when the COPS grant program of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 supported hiring of additional police officers. Chart appeared in US General Accounting Office.
Violent crime rate per 100k population by state (2023) [1] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.
The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019 for the 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system. [1] The population numbers are based on U.S. Census estimates for the year end.
Chicago’s homicide victims in 2024 are often young, Black and male. Most homicide victims in Chicago died as the result of gunshot wounds. Sources: City of Chicago; Tribune reporting and archives
The number of shooting victims in 2020 also grew aggressively, when compared to the previous year: 4,033 victims in 2020, against 2,598 in 2019. Chicago’s homicide rate skyrocketed in 2020 with ...
If the murder rate in Memphis stays steady, the city is on track to reach 240 homicides in 2016, shattering the highest murders recorded in one year -- 213 homicides set in 1993. Last year, the ...
The second-largest city in Michigan, Grand Rapids recorded a murder rate of 13.8 per 100,000 in 2020, more than double of the United States rate of 7.8 per 100,000. [12] [13] The overall crime rate declined by one-third between 2003 and 2011, [14] but Grand Rapids set a record with 38 homicides in 2020. [15]