Homicides in the United States
2004/2003
FBI: 132 Police Killed While on Duty in 2003. Of the total, which is eight deaths more than in 2002, 49 were killed in traffic accidents and 45 by firearms. Thirty-one of those killed with guns were wearing body armor at the time
There were approximately 4,743 lynchings in the U.S. between 1882 and 1968.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: 45 taxi drivers across the country were killed on the job in 2003, 37 of them shot to death.
Chicago 599 Chicago isAmerica's murder capital. The homicides are down from 648 a year earlier and 665 in 2001. It's the first time since 1967 that the total has dipped below 600. The nation's third-largest city still outpaced all others for the second time in three years. New York, with about three times the population, ended the year with 596 homicides. Los Angeles, which had the most murders in 2002 at 658, wound up with about 100 fewer than Chicago last year. |
New York 596 The final tally for 2003 was 596 homicides, up from 587 in 2002. The murder rate in NY City was driven by the crack cocaine epidemic, hitting more than 2,000 in the early 1990's. |
Los Angeles 505 Most murder victims: males in their teens or 20s, gang- or drug-related, on the weekends and half of murders were Latino. Blacks represented 39% & whites 7. |
Detroit 361 |
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Philadelphia 347 | Houston 272/278 | Baltimore 271 |
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DC 198 247 PG County, MD 148 128 |
Phoenix 247 |
Dallas 235 |
Oakland 114 |
St. Columbus 112 |
Seattle 88 |
Birmingham 87 |
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Pittsburgh
41/77 San Francisco 71 |
Gary 69 | St.Louis 69 |
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Charlotte 66 |
Cincinnati 66 |
Toronto 65 |
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Richmond 64 |
Albuquerque
58//63 Rochester 57 |
Camden 44 |
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Minneapolis 44 |
Utah 43 | Boston 41 |
Greensboro 39 |
Wichita 21 |
Providence 19 |
Atlantic City 17 |
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Maine 16 |
High Point 9 | Puerto Rico 779 |
Black-on-black murder is the most serious environmental issue in the black community today.
Black-on-Black murder is an insult to the sacrifices of our ancestors.
It is an insult to the sacrifices of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Huey Newton. And two of them were killed by Blacks.
Schadenfreude
German word for:
The guilty pleasure people secretly take in someone else's suffering. It is usually generated by a person's own modest, uncelebrated, drab, dull, tedious and virtually purposeless life. But almost everybody rubber necks in the hope of seeing someone else's gore.
