After Bloodiest Year, Baltimore Murder Rate Still Rising - Breitbart After Bloodiest Year, Baltimore Murder Rate Still Rising
With 344 murders, last year was the bloodiest year in the City of Baltimore’s history. But as 2016 reaches its halfway point, the bloodshed seems to be showing no signs of stopping.
Thus far, the town once called “Charm City” has suffered
114 deaths, mostly a result of gang warfare.
Now that summer has pretty much begun, the murder rate is ticking up as well. In the last week of May alone, an incredible
twelve murders were committed in the city.
As Salt Lake City’s
KUTV reported on April 21, the murder rates in Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington D.C. drove the higher national murder rate in 2015.
This year is following closely the dangerous pattern seen last year. Baltimore’s per capita murder rate in 2015 was
the worst the city has ever recorded. Even though there were more murders by body count in 1993 (353 were murdered then as compared to the 344 in 2015) the population of the city in 1993 was much higher than that of today.