Posted in Crime

WTF: City of Pensacola has higher murder rate than NYC

   December 31, 2012

police-crime-scene-with-yellow sml
Last Friday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised his Police Department for newly released 2012 homicide statistics, which showed 414 murders in the city—the city’s lowest homicide rate in 40 years and a 19 percent decrease over 2011’s rate of 515. That puts the city’s homicide rate (per 100,000) at 5.02.

The City of Pensacola is headed in the opposite direction. According to my count, Pensacola has had seven homicides in 2012, which pegs its homicide rate at 13.41. The number of murders inside the city limits has nearly doubled since last year, and is the highest in the past 10 years.

That’s right – Pensacola has a higher homicide rate than NYC.

Murders by Year
City of Pensacola

2011 4
2012 4
2010 1
2009 1
2008 3
2007 2
2006 2
2005 5
2004 0
2003 5
2002 2

source: FDLE reports

Share:

Rules for Comments

Your comments are welcomed, but there are some rules to follow:

(1) Be Nice. No comments that slander another, no racism, no sexism, no personal attacks.

(2) No Harrassing Comments.

(3) No Libel. That’s saying something is not true about someone. Don’t do it.

(4) Keep it clean. Nothing vulgar, obscene, or sexually related. No profanity or obvious substitutions.

(5) I reserve the right to remove any comments that violate our rules or are inappropriate. I am not responsible for what is posted. Comments may not appear right away until they are approved by a moderator.

(6) Limit your comments to the subject in this story only, and limit comments to 1,500 characters or less. Do not post copyrighted material. Comments will not be added to stories that are over five days old.

(7) No posts may advertise a commercial business, political candidate, or political group. Links in a comment aren’t allowed.

8) Commenting too many times may result in your comments not being allowed. Readers will begin to ignore your views.

9) Email me if you believe a comment violates any of these rules, and it will be deleted.