Friday, May 7, 2010

Blog - Homicide Report - Los Angeles Times

Blog - Homicide Report - Los Angeles Times

I am looking at the LA Times excellent interactive homicide report with maps, which does an excellent jobs of compiling stats and pic's on all homicides since 2007. I do blast LA City & County a lot on my blog so i did a check on homicide frequencies for LA County. Lo and behold!! Homicide rates are actually, and shockingly, declining! In 2007 we had 939 homicides(war zone levels): in 2008 we had 880: 2009 we had 740: and in first 4 months of 2010 we have had 230
homicides, which extrapolates out to roughly 700 for all of 2010. However, summer likely sees rise in homicide levels so we will likely see levels in 2010 which exceed 2009. Also there seems to have been a dramatic surge last few weeks in LA homicides, with rates running at 60-70 per month.

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