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On August 31, 2016, Dearman was charged with six counts of capital murder (one charge for Chelsea Reed's fetus, under Alabama's fetal homicide law) and two counts of abduction. (wikipedia.org)
Some additional thoughts about how a 2015 ACLU consent decree with the Chicago Police Department contributed to the 2016 homicide spike--responding to tweets from Professor John Pfaff and to comments from the ACLU. (reason.com)
On Monday, I discussed Professor Fowles and my article about what caused the 2016 Chicago homicide spike . (reason.com)
At least three homicides have already occurred in Chicago in 2018, the violence spiking following a year in which the Windy City celebrated fewer homicides than in 2016. (foxnews.com)
News of the deaths came the same day the Chicago Police Department released statistics showing the number of homicides fell from 771 in 2016 to 650 last year. (foxnews.com)
Despite the drop, in a repeat of 2016, the homicides still eclipsed the number of killings in New York City and Los Angeles combined. (foxnews.com)
Maine had 20 homicides last year, two more than in 2016, according to the Maine Department of Public Safety. (bangordailynews.com)
Since 2010, the number of homicides in Maine has averaged 24 a year with a high of 28 in 2011 and a low of 18 in 2016. (bangordailynews.com)

This booklet constitutes the second part of the Global Study on Homicide 2019 . (unodc.org)
Constituting the third part of the Global Study on Homicide 2019 , this booklet provides an overview of the drivers of homicide and looks at the different typologies and mechanisms of homicide perpetration. (unodc.org)
Constituting the fourth part of the Global Study on Homicide 2019 , this booklet starts by examining the relationship between homicidal violence and level of development with reference to the Sustainable Development Goals. (unodc.org)
In 2019 an estimated 475 000 people worldwide were victims of homicide (global rate of 6.2 per 100 000). (who.int)
Police reported 537 homicides in 2020, up from 455 in 2019, bringing the rate per 100,000 residents to just over six - a number last seen in 1998 as the crime wave that peaked earlier in the decade began to taper off, according to FBI reports. (nbc12.com)
Of them, Portsmouth saw the steepest increase - a 125 percent rise from 16 homicides in 2019 to 36 in 2020. (nbc12.com)

Gang homicides often occur in public and involve firearms, but are less likely to involve drugs or other crimes than generally believed by the public, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)

In Los Angeles and Long Beach, gang homicides accounted for the majority of homicides among 15-24-year-olds (61 and 69 percent, respectively). (cdc.gov)
The majority of homicides were in the City of Chicago. (cbsnews.com)

SOUTH SIDE - A homicide investigation was under way Wednesday after the body of an unidentified man was found near railroad tracks in the West Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, police said. (chicagotribune.com)
Police initially said it was a death investigation, but later reclassified her death as a homicide. (foxnews.com)
Police say his death is being investigated as a homicide, however the cause of death is under investigation. (nbcwashington.com)
An investigation by North Las Vegas homicide detectives is ongoing. (reviewjournal.com)
Devonshire Homicide Detectives R. Lozano and O. Martinez are conducting the investigation. (lapdonline.org)
Harbor Area Homicide detectives are handling investigation. (lapdonline.org)

Now, with a surge in homicides happening in other cities across the country, Los Angeles has seen a 25% increase in killings over last year, hitting the 300 mark with more than a month left in 2020. (latimes.com)
The Venezuelan Violence Observatory estimates that 24,763 killings occurred this year, pushing up the homicide rate to 79 per 100,000 inhabitants. (ksl.com)

Nor is it clear what sort of "socio-economic" statistics would have been relevant to explaining the homicide spike, which developed over a short period of time. (reason.com)
But since our goal was to explain the Chicago homicide spike, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with looking at Chicago data. (reason.com)
But it is curious that Professor Pfaff would take us to task for failing to look at this issue when, at the same time, he argues that the "best analysis" of the homicide spike was done by the University of Chicago Urban Lab. (reason.com)

Number of deaths due to homicide per 100,000 population. (countyhealthrankings.org)
Homicides is the number of deaths from assaults per 100,000 population. (countyhealthrankings.org)

Beyond Chicago, he said, "a growing number of major cities are receiving a significant increase in robberies, homicides and aggravated assaults. (go.com)
Outside of homicides and serious assaults, crime was mostly down last year, with police reporting fewer kidnappings, rapes, other sex offenses and robberies. (nbc12.com)
Although data are not available to quantify nonfatal assaults in the United States, such intentional injuries to workers occur much more frequently than occupational homicides. (cdc.gov)
Efforts to prevent occupational homicide may also reduce the number of nonfatal assaults. (cdc.gov)

The year's third homicide happened at around 5 p.m. Monday in the Fuller Park neighborhood, police said. (foxnews.com)
In 2017, nine homicides - including the year's only multiple homicide - were related to domestic violence. (bangordailynews.com)
Following two recent shootings, Nashville's climbing criminal homicide count has surpassed last year's total. (newschannel5.com)
A 24-year-old man was shot and killed in Hermitage on Saturday, and an 18-year-old was fatally shot in northeast Nashville on Monday, according to Metro police, bringing this year's total to 42 criminal homicides. (newschannel5.com)
Last year's total of 41 homicides was the lowest number since the Metro Nashville government was created in 1963. (newschannel5.com)

During the period 1980-89, nearly 7,600 U.S. workers were victims of homicide in the workplace. (cdc.gov)

Drive-by shootings were more likely to contribute to gang homicides than other types of homicide in Los Angeles and Oklahoma City (24 percent of gang homicides in each city were from drive-by shootings). (cdc.gov)
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A hot summer of shootings led to an increase in homicide cases in Cleveland in 2011. (cleveland.com)
A mass slaying in August in Copley and a week of shootings in Akron last month accounted for 14 of the homicides. (cleveland.com)
And a series of shootings in Akron during the week before Christmas accounted for six of the other homicides.Police, who arrested three men, said they believe there is a connection between many of the shootings, in which most victims had criminal records involving drugs. (cleveland.com)
A long and violent year in Chicago ended with a record number of shootings and the most homicides in two decades, police say. (go.com)
Homicides were up more than 50%, and shootings continued to be a problem just minutes into the new year. (cbsnews.com)

A missing value is reported for counties with fewer than 10 homicide deaths in the time frame. (countyhealthrankings.org)
The numerator is the number of deaths in a county over the 7-year period due to homicide as defined by ICD-10 codes X85-Y09 (assault). (countyhealthrankings.org)
Black people were the victims of 78% of homicides and Latinos accounted for more than 16% of homicide deaths. (cbsnews.com)
Eighty-nine percent of homicide deaths were males. (cbsnews.com)
Occupational homicides accounted for approximately 7,600 deaths during this period -- or 12% of all deaths from injury in the workplace. (cdc.gov)
Nonetheless, homicide was the leading cause of death from occupational injury among women, causing 41% of all such deaths among women compared with 10% among men. (cdc.gov)
Deaths from homicide were identified using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision underlying cause of death codes *U01-*U02,X85-Y09,Y87.1. (cdc.gov)
In 2015, homicide rates were 5.7 deaths per 100,000 for the total population, 20.9 for non-Hispanic blacks, 4.9 for Hispanics, and 2.6 for non-Hispanic whites. (cdc.gov)
During 1999-2015, rates of deaths from homicide were highest for non-Hispanic blacks and lowest for non-Hispanic whites and declined the most for Hispanics. (cdc.gov)

Arrests have not been made in four homicides, two in Portland and one each in Whitneyville and Bucksport. (bangordailynews.com)

In all cities, 92-96 percent of gang homicide incidents involved firearms, compared with firearm involvement in 57-86 percent of nongang related homicides. (cdc.gov)

In past decades, L.A. experienced far more violence, with more than 1,000 homicides in some years in the 1980s and 1990s. (latimes.com)

JANUARY 8--Los Angeles investigators probing the recent stabbing death of alt rocker Elliott Smith could not classify the incident as a suicide because several aspects of the knifing were not consistent with suicide and "raise the possibility of homicide. (thesmokinggun.com)

DURHAM, N.C. - The North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence released the 2006 domestic violence homicide report today. (nccadv.org)
The report accounts for 79 domestic violence homicide victims in North Carolina in 2006. (nccadv.org)
By supporting your local domestic violence crisis center and letting abusers know that North Carolina will hold them accountable, we hope to see a reduction in the homicide rate next year. (nccadv.org)

Suicides and homicides among Indians. (cdc.gov)
1970). Suicides and homicides among Indians. (cdc.gov)
Ogden, M. and Spector, M. I. and Hill, C. A. "Suicides and homicides among Indians. (cdc.gov)

Of the 19 homicides, State Police investigated 17. (maine.gov)
South Brooklyn has suffered from a spate of homicides this year, making it the only area in the city where the murder rate has increased, according to an analysis of police data. (wsj.com)
Flask noted that homicide figures in Cleveland have been generally decreasing since 2007, when police investigated 130 homicides. (cleveland.com)
Our paper argued that the causal mechanism was likely an ACLU consent decree with the Chicago Police Department, which led to a sharp decline in stop and frisks-and, we believe, a consequent sharp increase in homicides (and other shooting crimes). (reason.com)
Homicides in Chicago jumped to their highest level since 1996, when 796 were recorded, according to historical data from the Chicago Police Department. (go.com)
City police said the first homicide of the New Year happened around 2:20 a.m. Monday when a man driving a Toyota Camry was shot in the back. (foxnews.com)
The post Roanoke police investigating homicide appeared first on WTOP . (nbcwashington.com)
Police are investigating a homicide Friday morning in the west Las Vegas Valley. (reviewjournal.com)
Maine State Police detectives announced in late December that her death was a homicide. (bangordailynews.com)
NORFOLK, Va. - Police have arrested a man wanted in connection to three homicides in both Norfolk and Virginia Beach. (wtkr.com)
Police have charged Beale IV with second-degree murder in connection to the Norfolk homicide. (wtkr.com)
Marshall, Texas, police say they are investigating a homicide that occurred at Oak Manor apartments in the 2800 block of Victory Drive. (ksla.com)
Marshall police detectives and patrol officers, along with Task Force investigators, continue to gather information about the homicide. (ksla.com)
When a domestic homicide occurs, the relevant police force informs the relevant Community Safety Partnership (CSP) in writing of the incident. (newport.gov.uk)
The Newport Beach Police Department confirmed to RadarOnline.com that they arrested a man in connection with the double homicide that took the life of former pro hockey player Darren Partch and Wendi Miller . (radaronline.com)
Prichard Police are looking for a Gold Toyota Camry that may be connected to the double homicide. (wkrg.com)
PRICHARD, Ala. (WKRG) - Prichard Police are investigating a double homicide. (wkrg.com)
Police reported nine homicides in the county, up from two the year prior. (nbc12.com)
As every experienced prosecutor knows, few witnesses will cooperate or provide information to the police in drug-related homicides without the intelligence and leverage created by drug investigations. (city-journal.org)
Chicago police outline more mental health support for officers and a focus on closing homicide cases and getting guns off the street. (cbsnews.com)

Every survivor that domestic violence programs work with is a potential homicide victim. (vawnet.org)

You can say homicide statistics dropped 50 percent over the previous year, but so what? (cleveland.com)
Cleveland accounted for the vast majority of homicide cases in the county, which saw its total rise from 98 in 2010 to 104 last year. (cleveland.com)
Homicide data can also be further broken down by year and method of assault. (countyhealthrankings.org)
Homicides last year in Chicago rose at the fastest rate in 60 years. (go.com)
There were 24 homicides recorded in Northern Ireland in 2022/23, the same as in the previous reporting year. (statista.com)
Compared with 2002/03, when there 45 homicides, there were 21 fewer homicides in Northern Ireland in the most recent reporting year. (statista.com)
Official figures in the LAPD's data-driven Compstat unit stood at 299 homicides for the year Sunday morning, though the latest violence will push the figure higher once final confirmations are made, including with the Los Angeles County coroner's office, said Capt. Stacy Spell, a department spokesman. (latimes.com)
LAPD Chief Michel Moore anticipates Los Angeles will see more than 300 homicides this year - a grisly milestone not reached in more than a decade. (latimes.com)
At least 35 children witnessed a domestic violence homicide last year. (nccadv.org)
BOOKED: Windell Moris Jr., 23, faces charges of homicide and abandoning a child in connection with the death of 26-year-old Camri Johnson, of Marshall. (ksla.com)
Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres said last week that the homicide rate has fallen this year from 50 to 39 per 100,000 inhabitants. (ksl.com)
Last year was grim enough, as a 30-year low in felony cases prosecuted coincided with 499 homicides-more than New York, which has five times the population, and one shy of the record, reached in 1990 at the height of the crack epidemic. (city-journal.org)

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed 875 gun related homicides in 2020, breaking the previous record of 838 set in 1994. (cbsnews.com)
The office handled a total of 970 homicides in 2020. (cbsnews.com)

The last time Cook County saw more than 970 homicides was in 1996. (cbsnews.com)

Comparing the homicide rate predicted on the basis of a country's level of development with the actual homicide rate reported by that country helps to clarify how effective development policies can be instrumental in reducing homicidal violence. (unodc.org)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A non-governmental group that tracks violent crime in Venezuela says the country's homicide rate has risen again in 2013 and has quadrupled over the past 15 years. (ksl.com)

homicide committed in the context of organized crime and gang violence and homicide committed while perpetrating other criminal acts such as robbery and sexual assault. (unodc.org)
Violence - including gang homicides - is a significant public health problem," said Linda C. Degutis, Dr.P.H., M.S.N., director of CDC′s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. (cdc.gov)
Both were classified as domestic violence homicides. (bangordailynews.com)
Amid a rash of weekend gun violence, Los Angeles early Sunday reached a bloody benchmark not seen in a decade: 300 homicides. (latimes.com)
Domestic violence homicides increased by 6 percent from 2005. (nccadv.org)
Domestic violence programs deal with the reality of knowing that a homicide could happen at any time, yet not allowing this knowledge to overpower their work with victims. (vawnet.org)
The purpose of a DHR is to consider the circumstances that led to the domestic violence homicide so that public bodies, community and voluntary sector organisations can identify where responses to the situation could have been improved. (newport.gov.uk)
the city's comparative lack of poor neighborhoods with a history of violence militates against homicides. (city-journal.org)
But de-prosecution appears capable of contributing to a rise in homicide in cities already experiencing substantial degrees of poverty and violence, such as St. Louis or Chicago, both of which have seen homicide rates skyrocket. (city-journal.org)
Un dépistage systématique de la violence lors des consultations en maternité devrait être envisagé. (who.int)

Drug dealers and felons who possess weapons-a cohort often involved in homicides-are seeing fewer convictions in Philadelphia. (city-journal.org)
The trends are almost precisely inverted, suggesting that the fewer felony prosecutions pursued by the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, the more homicides that result. (city-journal.org)

Finally, with homicides going unsolved, a cycle of retaliatory murders unfolds on Philadelphia's streets, as gangs and individuals take justice into their own hands. (city-journal.org)

This report analyzed 2003-2008 data from large cities in 17 states, and found five cities had the highest levels of gang homicides ― Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Long Beach, Calif., Oakland, Calif., and Newark, N.J. (cdc.gov)
In Los Angeles and Long Beach, less than 5 percent of all homicides were associated with known drug trade or use. (cdc.gov)
however, Los Angeles, Newark, and Oklahoma City still reported significantly higher proportions of male victims in gang homicide incidents compared with nongang homicide incidents. (cdc.gov)
A significantly smaller proportion of gang than nongang homicides were associated with other crimes in progress in Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland (ranging from 0-3 percent for gang homicides versus 9-15 percent for nongang). (cdc.gov)

Some 80% of homicides occur in males and the highest rates are in males aged 15-29 years. (who.int)
Homicide can generate a sense of insecurity in society, and when high rates occur in countries with weak, inefficient and corrupt criminal justice systems, can contribute to undermining social and economic development. (who.int)

In others where de-prosecution has been the rule for some time, such as Baltimore, the homicide rate eventually reaches an equilibrium-an intolerably high one, in Baltimore's case-past which it can move only incrementally. (city-journal.org)
The homicide rate for male workers was three times that for female workers (1.0/100,000 compared with 0.3/100,000). (cdc.gov)
Nearly half of the occupational homicides occurred among workers aged 25 to 44, but workers aged 65 and older had the highest rate of occupational homicide (2.0/100,000). (cdc.gov)
However, the rate of occupational homicide among black workers (1.4/100,000) and other races (1.6/100,000) was more than twice the rate for white workers (0.6/100,000). (cdc.gov)
Three workplaces had homicide rates that were at least double the average annual rate (0.7/100,000) for the United States: retail trades, public administration, and transportation/communication/public utilities. (cdc.gov)

DHRs do not replace but are in addition to any inquest or other form of inquiry into the homicide. (newport.gov.uk)

Of the 19 homicides, eight of the victims were shot to death- five by handgun, two by shotgun and one with a rifle. (maine.gov)
Homicide is the killing of a person by another with intent to cause death or serious injury, by any means. (who.int)
This report is the first to compare gang homicides with other types of homicides using city-level data from CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). (cdc.gov)
Homicide is the second leading cause of death among persons aged 15-24 years in the United States. (cdc.gov)
So, even if a homicide occurred across the state, the death is counted in the home county of the individual who died. (countyhealthrankings.org)
DULUTH - The body of a northeastern Minnesota woman missing for almost two weeks was found Tuesday, and the Aitkin County Sheriff's Office said her death was likely a homicide. (startribune.com)
Mae's body was transported to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner's Office, whose preliminary findings indicate her death was a homicide. (startribune.com)
Homicide was the leading cause of occupational death from injury for women, and the third leading cause for all workers. (cdc.gov)
This article aims to problematize how the phenomenon of victimization of poor and black children and youths by homicide in Brazil is an analyzer of the relationships between death management policies in the peripheries of contemporary capitalism and the psychosocial production of killable subjects. (bvsalud.org)

It provides an overview of intentional homicide counts, rates and trends. (unodc.org)
Gable's estranged wife, Michelle Coller Gable, made appeared in court Friday on two counts of deliberate homicide. (officer.com)

Very few surveillance systems collect data with the level of detail necessary to direct gang homicide prevention strategies. (cdc.gov)
These breakdowns could help measure the impact of interventions specific to homicide prevention. (countyhealthrankings.org)

Starting at the global level, the analysis turns to regional, subregional and national trends before the focus shifts to the subnational picture of homicide in selected locations where such data are available and patterns can be identified. (unodc.org)
The analysis is based on a set of models that incorporate the latest available homicide data and were designed to take into account the social and economic factors most strongly correlated with homicide rates across countries. (unodc.org)
All of these variables were based on monthly data, since we were attempting to explain homicide data reported on monthly basis. (reason.com)
1992} for an overview of work-related homicides based on NTOF data for the years 1980-88. (cdc.gov)
See Bell {1991} for an analysis of NTOF data on occupational homicides among women. (cdc.gov)

It is true, of course, that our regression equations explain homicides (and shooting crimes) by using stop and frisk as an explanatory variable. (reason.com)
Since taking office, Krasner has pursued a policy of de-prosecution-the decision not to prosecute certain crimes regardless of whether they actually took place-as homicides have spiked. (city-journal.org)

Homicide rates are valuable to report because they provide specificity to violent crime. (countyhealthrankings.org)

A macroanalysis of the extent to which homicide rates can be explained by national levels of development is then presented. (unodc.org)
Societies where young people - particularly young males - make up a greater share of the population tend to have higher homicide rates. (who.int)
The fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, apartheid in South Africa, and dictatorship in Brazil all saw rapid increases in homicide rates. (who.int)
Homicide rates may increase in the absence of good governance and effective rule of law. (who.int)
Homicide rates tend to be lower where states have legitimacy in the eyes of citizens, can deliver key political goods such as justice based on the rule of law, and have low levels of corruption. (who.int)
Professor Pfaff also mentions that our regression equations simply include (in one model) homicides rates in other cities, without developing difference-in-difference variables or synthetic controls. (reason.com)
During 1999-2014, a general decline in homicide trends for non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic populations occurred, followed by a significant increase in the rates for all three groups between 2014 and 2015. (cdc.gov)

There was one homicide each in Portland and Bangor. (maine.gov)

Poverty, economic inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and the availability of guns and alcohol are also risk factors for homicide. (who.int)

Demographic structure is a well-established risk factor for homicide. (who.int)

Gang homicides frequently involve youth as victims and are often retaliatory reactions to gang conflict. (cdc.gov)

homicide that occurs in the context of interpersonal conflict. (unodc.org)

in Oklahoma City, 25.4 percent of gang homicides compared to 22.8 percent of nongang homicides involved drug trade / use. (cdc.gov)
Newark was the only city with a significantly higher proportion of gang homicides (20 percent) vs. nongang homicides (6 percent) that involved drug trade / use. (cdc.gov)
From June 9 to Oct. 5, there were 30 homicides in the city. (cleveland.com)
Ninety-three percent of the homicides in the city in 2011 involved guns, and 80 percent of the homicides in Cuyahoga County involved firearms. (cleveland.com)
Gray says there have been about 50 homicides in the city so far in 2013, about as many as there were this time in 2012. (wtop.com)
Under Krasner, Philadelphia is on track to set two city records: the lowest number of felony prosecutions in modern history and the highest number of homicides. (city-journal.org)
Compare a general measure of felony prosecutions-the annual number of criminal prosecutions in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas as reported by the Pennsylvania Sentencing Commission-with the annual number of homicides in the city. (city-journal.org)

Among workplaces, retail trades had the highest number of occupational homicides (2,787) during the period 1980-89, and services had the second highest number (1,275). (cdc.gov)

An emotional gathering Monday night remembered two siblings and two other young people shot and killed in two double homicides in the District. (wtop.com)

Guns were used in 75% of all occupational homicides from 1980 to 1989. (cdc.gov)

Cleveland's homicide total in 2010 was its lowest in 50 years. (cleveland.com)
Homicide' sees both 6LACK and singer / songwriter Jessie Reyez coming together after many years of friendship and deep admiration for one another," reads the press release. (laweekly.com)
In just six years, the number of homicides in Philadelphia has doubled. (city-journal.org)

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