Tag: homicide rate

A new report on crime trends in major U.S. cities says homicides fell sharply in 2025, with the murder rate likely reaching its lowest level since at least 1900. The ...

Philadelphia - According to a report by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia recently recorded its 500th homicide in 2022, which makes it the second year in a row with 500 killings. ...

St. Louis, MO. - City officials in St. Louis, Missouri, are moving forward with a plan to cut $4 million from the police budget and remove 98 vacant officer jobs. The ...

As homicides spiked in 2020 along with the demonization of law enforcement by the media and the public, the future of police recruiting is in real doubt.  Using the death ...

BALTIMORE - The city of Baltimore has already had 50 murders after merely two months into 2020. The Baltimore Police Department announced Sunday that 19-year-old Graham Blake was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting ...

BALTIMORE – The Baltimore mayor says local leadership isn't to blame for the city's increasing homicide rate, telling reporters on Wednesday he's "not committing the murders" himself. Bernard "Jack" Young, ...

A Washington Post analysis finds that Chicago Police have cleared just 1 in 5 homicides in 2016—a finding that police and city officials do not deny nor dispute.