The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday (http://bsun.md/1gYUgmw ) that Baltimore’s homicide rate is 34 killings per 100,000 people, while New York’s is 2.5 per 100,000. He was shot Wednesday night on the West side of Baltimore, near where another man was shot and killed the day before. If New York had Baltimore’s homicide fee, it might have seen 2,874 killings already this yr.
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It’s a seemingly impossible milestone – New York has more than 8.4 million people, Baltimore just 620,000.
Patrick Semansky/AP An investigator places evidence placards at the scene of a shooting in July 2015, in Baltimore.
According to police figures, there were 211 homicides in the city previous year and 135 on this date in 2014.
Baltimore has had 212 killings this year. The uptick came after rioting in the spring over the death of Freddie Gray, the black man critically injured in police custody.
The highest number of murders in Baltimore happened in 1993, when the city saw 353 homicides.
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Authorities say a former Atlantic City casino security guard who used inside knowledge to make off with more than $180,000 and four others have been indicted on charges. However, the city is home to approximately 2.7 million people, which means the murder rate is about 10.4 per 100,000 people- less than a third of rate we are seeing in Baltimore.
