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339 v 428

inquirer murder count 2007
According to the Inky's 2007 "homicide map" (ouch, Philly needs a murder map?!) 339 people have been murdered as of November 1st. According to last year's map, there were 406 so the situation is improving, a little bit.

1nyt murder count 2007According to this NY Times article, murders in NYC are about to dip below 500 for the first time in over 40 years with the count currently at 428. NYC is a city that is roughly 8x the size of Philly and Philly has about 80% of the murder count as NYC. Extrapolating this year's Philly murder count to a city the size of NYC, you'd have 2700+ murders. According to the graphic at left, it doesn't look like NYC has ever had that many ('90 looks like it had a bit under 2500.

Mayor-elect Michael Nutter has a crime plan which he calls Safety Now which would enact an immediate and targeted crime emergency (Philly also has 648 shootings through May). His appointment of a guy who had his force beat up on protesters and a journalist and received some serious criticism from the Human Rights Watch sends the message that Nutter may go Giuliani on Philly. During Giuliani's reign, murders dropped to about a third from when he took office. Nutter will come into office with the last 6 years' murder count averaging 343/year. If he leaves office in 2016 with a murder count of 114, will the centerpiece of his legacy be crime reduction?

Inky image: Alan Basden/Inquirer
NYT image: source: NYPD

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2 Comments on “339 v 428”

  1. andrew Says:
    November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:48 pm

    Actually, 406 was the total for all of last year. As of November 18th, there were 359 murders this year, compared with 362 for the same period last year. I've followed this fairly extensively at malcolmxpark.org:

    http://malcolmxpark.org/?cat=14

    The year opened with a couple of very bad months, but since then, the numbers have backed off those increases, and we've been steadily drawing even with last year. It's still terrible, but it's looking like things aren't going to exceed last year by too much, if at all.

  2. Albert Says:
    November 23rd, 2007 @ 11:53 pm

    andrew – i meant to say that 406 was the total for last year, poor wording/sentence structure on my part. i never excelled at grammar :)

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