by Felix Richter, Statista.com
— this post authored by Dyfed Loesche
2016 saw an increase in the murder rate in many U.S. cities.
While official federal data for last year isn’t available yet, data from precincts around the country indicate that more murders were committed in most of the country’s big cities, according to research by FiveThirtyEight. Here’s a breakdown of how many that were accordingly.
This chart shows U.S. cities by highest number of murders per 100,000 inhabitants 2016.
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