Murder up 35.7% YTD relative to 2019 (2020)

This post is from November, 2020.

I wonder if there was a quiet decision across police departments to reduce presence in light of the riots and widespread lash back.<p>Certainly these departments won’t announce the official policy, the same way they didn’t for all their other polices.

this is not interesting? hes comparing raw murder numbers. differences of 150 murders to 160. what WOULD be interesting is the change in murder rate per capita, and compare that over a longer period of time to see if that number has actually increased significantly in the wider picture, not just for the dates that were cherry picked here

I don&#x27;t have enough information to comment on the YoY statistic, as I am sure it could be due to a variety of 2020-esque factors.<p>But I will comment on the murder rate in Philadelphia. Good lord that&#x27;s a lot of murders per capita (NYC has 5x the population of Philadelphia)

...in the US.<p>But what about the rest of the world?

I want to see a further analysis. A huge jump like this will certainly leave a readable trail in the data. There is plenty we could learn from this.

... in the US. Anyone got comparable stats for other countries or is this another aspect of the US&#x27;s unexpectedly high violence?

Another predictable outcome of taking funding away from the police.<p>Based on the comments it looks like we’re at the denial phase. Maybe another year or two until we wise up and restore the budgets.

well most murder is of people you know, and people have been spending a lot of time with people they know.

D cities +36.2% R cities +35.6%<p>How in any way is this relevant? To anything? It&#x27;s seeing this sort of spiked dialogue that just reinforces my belief that the US is on a downward spiral of naval-gazing self-destruction. One would hope the US had grown up by now. Gotten past the terrible teens. Sadly it hasn&#x27;t.

Just numbers are meaningless.<p>Without the location&#x27;s demographics you can&#x27;t conclude nothing. Or maybe that&#x27;s the point.

You have to read Steve Sailer to understand why this is, but you can&#x27;t do that and admit it in polite company, even though everybody else has too.

Inequality is likely a major cause of crime as it creates more pressure&#x2F;trauma on the poor.<p>A lot of people think that criminals are fundamentally different from them. More aggressive, less empathetic, etc... I&#x27;m pretty sure that essentially anyone can become a criminal. It&#x27;s just a matter of how much trauma each person can take.<p>Stress and trauma are very bad for the brain.