Two-year homicide increase in cities
Now that the UCR data for last year is out, here is the homicide rate increase in cities over 400,000 people. This is two year, 2014-2016.
Homicide is up in 40 of the 48 largest cities.
Two-year homicide increase in cities
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Homicide is increasing in cities so quickly and that is really not good,i don't know what is the government and police is doing.May God protect us.
It is official.
I suppose it is possible to say that it lacks nuance.
Or argue, "so what" …. but the idea that its just noise in the data? Not so much.