A study says homicide rates are down. But 2015 ratesāespecially for gun violenceāare very different.
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U.S. Police Chiefs Meet to Address Rising Homicide Rates
This Chart Shows How Mass Public Shootings in the U.S. Have Risen
Nationwide Homicide Spike Hits Small Connecticut Capital City
Since 1960, U.S. homicide rates have been fallingāthat is, until this year. Meanwhile, intimate-partner violence and child abuse affect up to 12 million and 10 million Americans, respectively, according to a survey released Tuesday in JAMA. Taken together, it paints a bleak picture for Americansā safety, and it has violence prevention scholars trying to figure out what led to the changesāand when.
At the annual meeting of the Major Cities Chiefs Association on Monday, police chiefs grappled with the fact that some cities are seeing a 50% increase in murders compared with last year. Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier pointed to the nationās capital as an example: This time last year, D.C. had 69 homicides; this year, D.C. has seen at 87 homicides. Nearby Baltimore tallied 42 homicides in May alone, with 45 in July. And in Chicago, there have been 243 homicides this year so farāa 20% spike from last year.
Until 2012, āwe saw decreases for homicide and aggravated assault,ā says Dr. Debra Houry, a co-author of the JAMA study who works with the CDCās National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. āItās promising because it shows that violence is preventable.ā
Homicide rates in 1980 stood at 10.7 per 100,000; by 2013, theyād been cut in half. Aggravated assault saw a similar halving of incidences between 1992 and 2012.
But Andrew Papachristos, a professor of sociology at Yale and a criminal justice expert who has focused much of his research on Chicagoās gang and gun violence, says that JAMAās findings may not offer a nuanced enough picture of whatās going on in the United States, because it looks at general trends across the country. While on average crime might have fallen until to this year, some cities, such as Chicago and Milwaukee, are still facing severe problems with violence, particularly in certain areas of the city. Indeed, within cities, āthe rates of violence across neighborhoods can be exponentially higher in certain areas and almost zero in others,ā he says.
and its not only Blacks killing Blacks only.Whiteys doing the killing also.
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U.S. Police Chiefs Meet to Address Rising Homicide Rates
This Chart Shows How Mass Public Shootings in the U.S. Have Risen
Nationwide Homicide Spike Hits Small Connecticut Capital City
Since 1960, U.S. homicide rates have been fallingāthat is, until this year. Meanwhile, intimate-partner violence and child abuse affect up to 12 million and 10 million Americans, respectively, according to a survey released Tuesday in JAMA. Taken together, it paints a bleak picture for Americansā safety, and it has violence prevention scholars trying to figure out what led to the changesāand when.
At the annual meeting of the Major Cities Chiefs Association on Monday, police chiefs grappled with the fact that some cities are seeing a 50% increase in murders compared with last year. Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier pointed to the nationās capital as an example: This time last year, D.C. had 69 homicides; this year, D.C. has seen at 87 homicides. Nearby Baltimore tallied 42 homicides in May alone, with 45 in July. And in Chicago, there have been 243 homicides this year so farāa 20% spike from last year.
Until 2012, āwe saw decreases for homicide and aggravated assault,ā says Dr. Debra Houry, a co-author of the JAMA study who works with the CDCās National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. āItās promising because it shows that violence is preventable.ā
Homicide rates in 1980 stood at 10.7 per 100,000; by 2013, theyād been cut in half. Aggravated assault saw a similar halving of incidences between 1992 and 2012.
But Andrew Papachristos, a professor of sociology at Yale and a criminal justice expert who has focused much of his research on Chicagoās gang and gun violence, says that JAMAās findings may not offer a nuanced enough picture of whatās going on in the United States, because it looks at general trends across the country. While on average crime might have fallen until to this year, some cities, such as Chicago and Milwaukee, are still facing severe problems with violence, particularly in certain areas of the city. Indeed, within cities, āthe rates of violence across neighborhoods can be exponentially higher in certain areas and almost zero in others,ā he says.
and its not only Blacks killing Blacks only.Whiteys doing the killing also.
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