2aguy
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Yep.....as I have posted, Baltimore has extreme gun control...every gun control law the anti gun extremists dream about .......and now it is the most dangerous city in the U.S.....
Baltimore takes top honors as nation's most dangerous city
Baltimore’s highest-ever per capita homicide rate in 2017 also made it the deadliest big city in the country, USA Today reported Monday.
Though official data from the FBI won’t be available until later in the year, USA Today reviewed the homicide rates in the nation’s 50 largest cities and Baltimore came out on top. The 342 homicides the city experienced in 2017 were a 17 percent increase over the prior year, and translated to a rate of 56 killed per 100,000 people.
That easily outpaced New Orleans and Detroit, which both had about 40 killings per 100,000 people, according to the report.
Baltimore had more homicides last year than New York City, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, all considerably larger cities. Only Chicago, also a considerably larger city, had more.
The Sun correctly points out that these numbers can be a bit misleading. The USA Today study was limited to the fifty largest American cities by population, which means that only cities with close to a half million people made the list. In term of per capita carnage, there’s more blood being shed in smaller locales. The city which probably deserved top honors was St. Louis. They managed to rack up 205 homicides, only 37 less than Baltimore while having a population less than half the size.
Baltimore takes top honors as nation's most dangerous city
Baltimore’s highest-ever per capita homicide rate in 2017 also made it the deadliest big city in the country, USA Today reported Monday.
Though official data from the FBI won’t be available until later in the year, USA Today reviewed the homicide rates in the nation’s 50 largest cities and Baltimore came out on top. The 342 homicides the city experienced in 2017 were a 17 percent increase over the prior year, and translated to a rate of 56 killed per 100,000 people.
That easily outpaced New Orleans and Detroit, which both had about 40 killings per 100,000 people, according to the report.
Baltimore had more homicides last year than New York City, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, all considerably larger cities. Only Chicago, also a considerably larger city, had more.
The Sun correctly points out that these numbers can be a bit misleading. The USA Today study was limited to the fifty largest American cities by population, which means that only cities with close to a half million people made the list. In term of per capita carnage, there’s more blood being shed in smaller locales. The city which probably deserved top honors was St. Louis. They managed to rack up 205 homicides, only 37 less than Baltimore while having a population less than half the size.
