NEW YORK (AP) — New York City (NYC) has recorded just over 300 murders so far this year.
A total of 311 persons were killed in NYC between January 1 and December 22, slightly higher than the 290 recorded over the corresponding period last year.
It marks the first time in three years that America’s largest city with a population of 8.6 million residents has seen more than 300 killings in a calendar year.
In 2016, the city recorded 335 murders.
It’s also the second straight year of increases after the NYC achieved a modern-era low of 292 homicides in 2017, but a far cry from the early 1990s when the city averaged about 2,000 killings a year.
Officials say this year’s total is skewed, in part, by an outsized number of deaths carried over from years past.
At least 27 deaths counted in this year’s statistics happened prior to 2019, but were not classified as homicides by the city’s medical examiner until this year, the police department said.
They must be counted in the statistics for the year the death certificate is issued.
Based on the current figures New York City has a homicide rate of about 3.6 per 100,000.
Statistically, that makes it far less deadly than some other big cities.
Philadelphia, which has about 1.6 million residents, had 351 homicides as of Friday, for a rate of about 22 per 100,000 while Chicago, with about 2.7 million residents, has so far recorded 482 killings this year, for a rate of about 17.8 per 100,000.
Halfway into this year, New York City was on pace for its lowest annual homicide total since 1951, but a spate of killings in the second half of the year, fuelled by pockets of gang violence and a pair of quadruple killings, sent the tally higher.
They are comparing to a city that size with higher population than the country of Jamaica has significantly less crime.
The country that you can walk into a store and buy a gun like a pound of sugar has so few murders as compared to jamaica we should be shame. If you listen to the news you would think is a million people dead in Chicago,
to show how Jamaica with a smaller population had more than 1200 compared to 300
They should’ve combined the other states too. I’m sure it’ll surpass Jamaica’s amount.
Golden the point is Jamaica’s 2.8 mill people is smaller than NYC over 8 million population. Over 1000 is a large amount compared to a city that has nearly 3 times the amount of people
Golden, just think about what you said a little more
New York City and the other Cities were cited to generate the homicide rate per 100,00. So for NYC, it is 3.6 = [(311/8600000)x100,000] and for Jamaica with a population of approximately 3 million, the rate is 43.4= [(1303/3,000,000)x100,000)] or 12-times as high!
The Gleaner’s journalist did not write the story well. Blame it on Poor news and reporting skills. With the facts, I clearly see the correlation —-that JA has more murders than these three major US cities combined.
The journalist, however, failed in his/her writing to convey this thought in a clear, concise manner .
They don’t have copy editors over there????!!!?!!!?
Well, when ppl desperate and hungry for change they will work towards it. Jamaica crime rate high because those in charge do not want change. As wicked as Giuliani is a him vowed to clean up NYC, and he accomplished it during his tenure. When the crime started getting a way in JA, Patterson was PM and all he cared about was his highway building, he did jack shit to stem the crime wave when it wasn’t even so bad and probably could have easily been handled. Portia guh een wid fi har constituency looking like a war zone and all she do is stockpile and scrape till she could amass a small fortune that there is no valid explanation of how it was achieved, curtailing crime and enforcing order and lawfullness was not on her agenda. Now dis one a try wid him band aid solutions but no real impactful initiative to stem the violence. They all profiting from the disorder so they don’t care, even if the yearly murder rate was to rise to five or ten thousand they wouldn’t care.