Ninety-six people died in 2021, continuing a sharp spike in the number of killings in the city that began in 2020. Increases in domestic violence killings and homicides involving narcotics helped fuel the record number.
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St. Louis is contending with a homicide rate that by year’s end likely will be the worst in a half-century. Most killings are unsolved, and the pandemic is making police work tougher.
Police in the city of 600,000 recorded 338 homicides as of Tuesday after a week of relentless gunfire that saw eight people shot, three fatally, in one day. The total is up from 309 in 2018.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a study of the most recently available data from 2015-2016, found that 43 percent of the largest 50 metropolitan areas reported increases in the rate of gun-related deaths compared to 2012-2013. Firearm suicide rates are also going up.
There were 342 homicides in Baltimore last year, 56 per 100,000 residents. That’s the highest rate of any U.S. city with more than 500,000 people. Detroit was next, with 40 homicides per 100,000 people, followed by Memphis. Chicago, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.
While the overall murder rate still remains far below the one recorded in the ’90s, the increase in 2016 was the greatest recorded in nearly two decades.
Data from the first six months of 2017 showed the cities with the highest murder numbers per 100,000 population. New Orlenas, Detroit and Cleveland rounded out the top five. Chicago came in as number eight.
Baltimore’s homicide rate exceeds those in New Orleans and Chicago, two places that have become national symbols of gun violence. The Washington Post tells the story of a 10-month-old child found in the car of one victim.
Chicago has the nation’s highest homicide total–about 600 so far this year. Measured by the rate of killings per 100,000 residents, 17 cities are worse. Heading the list are New Orleans, Detroit, and St. Louis.
While some call the 1993 Brady law on gun buyer background checks –inspired by would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr., who was released Saturday–an “historic” step in gun control, research suggests it did not reduce firearm homicide rates.