{"id":106548,"date":"2016-09-13T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106548"},"modified":"2016-09-13T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:30:13","slug":"doj-study-finds-real-and-nearly-unprecedented-spike-in-homicides-around-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106548","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Study Finds “Real And Nearly Unprecedented” Spike In Homicides Around U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Zero Hedge<\/a>: The New York Times recently compiled data from around the country and found there were nearly 6,700 homicides reported in the 100 largest cities in 2015, a YoY increase of 950 or roughly 17%, with nearly half of the rise \u2014 480 of the 950 \u2014 coming from seven cities. Their study is tied to a June 2016 report published by the National Institute of Justice in which Richard Rosenfeld, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, declared that \u201cthe [2015] homicide increase in the nation\u2019s large cities was real and nearly unprecedented.”<\/p>\n

Murder rates rose significantly in 25 of the nation\u2019s 100 largest cities last year, according to an analysis by The New York Times of new data compiled from individual police departments.<\/p>\n

The findings confirm a trend that was tracked recently in a study published by the National Institute of Justice. \u201cThe homicide increase in the nation\u2019s large cities was real and nearly unprecedented,\u201d wrote the study\u2019s author, Richard Rosenfeld, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis who explored homicide data in 56 large American cities.<\/p>\n

In the Times analysis, half of the increase came from just seven cities \u2014 Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Milwaukee, Nashville and Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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