KC Murder Capital of Midwest?
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After almost cutting our (Omaha) total in half last year with 'only' 18 homicides... this year we are going gangbusters (so to speak)... I would guess we have approximately 18 already. We just had a rather troubling execution style triple homicide.
Just curious but why do you put the " " around the "only" 18 murders, like that was an extremely high number or something? I mean I realize no murder is good...but 18 murders for a city of about 400,000 is actually really low.eomaha.com said:
In 2002 Omaha had 26 murders which comes out to (6.6 per 100,000) which is just a little above the national murder rate average of (5.4 per 100,000).
So last year in Omaha there were 18 murders? That comes out to (4.5 per 100,000) which is well below the national average.
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'only' as in only 0 is a good number to me.
Goodness, getting less than 300 a year in the 90s in Baltimore was something a lot of us celebrated. We're at 145 right now, which is 6 fewer than the same time last year....I guess that's a good thing....seriously, 2000 was the first year we've had less than 300 murders in a long time.
40 doesn't seem too bad, though. I wish it could be as low as 0, but that isn't going to happen very easily. But we would envy having 40 murders this time around...
40 doesn't seem too bad, though. I wish it could be as low as 0, but that isn't going to happen very easily. But we would envy having 40 murders this time around...
I didnt even realize this...but we are already at 67 homicides. 67 people in half a year is sick. We havent even hit the hottest, most active times in July and August. The TV says that every 3 days...at least one person is murdered in Milwaukee. And here I thought our crime levels were dropping. :sleepy:
It's strange, because murders usually only account for 2% of all violent crime. You could flip the number of assaults with murders and still have the total violent crime be the same. Not that it would make any sense to have 10000 murders and only 200 assaults, but hypothetically speaking...
sadly is true. An 18 year was shot dead yesterday across from a church festival that was held so that area kids would have something positive to do.
Many of these shootings are over such trivial shit. Personal arguments often time lead to shooting deaths. Ever seen the movie Friday? Its a comedy but it has some good points. The goofy dad tells Ice Cube to use his fists instead of his gun..liike they used to.
Many of these shootings are over such trivial shit. Personal arguments often time lead to shooting deaths. Ever seen the movie Friday? Its a comedy but it has some good points. The goofy dad tells Ice Cube to use his fists instead of his gun..liike they used to.
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