Reply #49: Table 8 doesn't give State Totals

[russ1943]

You don’t seem to understand.
All 50 states, every one of them, have lower murder rates than the city that is the District of Columbia.
No one is pointing out the Districts murder rate as one to be emulated or envied, it is terrible.

My post was in response to the (repeated) claim that nearby Virginia was so much better. In the capital of Virginia, the city of Richmond has also had a terrible murder rate, even worse (higher) than the District in four of the last five years.
As far as cities go there are at least still a dozen cities with terrible murder rates worse than the District for 2007.
Gary, Indiana,
Camden New Jersey
Youngstown Ohio
Compton California
New Orleans Louisiana
Richmond California
Birmingham Alabama
Baton Rouge Louisiana
Detroit Michigan
Baltimore Maryland
St Louis Missouri
Newark New Jersey

(In 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 Richmond’s murder rate also was worse than the District’s).


There is no table or record I can find anywhere, that shows only 281 murders for the State of Virginia in 2007. Table 5 clearly shows 406.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_05.html

VIRGINIA, Offenses Known to Law Enforcement, by State by City, 2007
Table 8 doesn’t present State totals, it shows city totals within States.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/data/table_08_va.html

Unless of course you totaled all the cities and came up with 281, in which case I’d suggest you may have been mislead by the fact that not all murders are committed within cities, or some such other unknown variable.

Regarding your speculative newspaper article; Remember Richmond's Project Exile?

No matter, whatever they're doing to diminish gun crime, especially murder is to be commended, however short lived.