A New Year, RIch In Murder and Mayhem

AND IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING WHAT TO COMPARE IT TO,

here's how '08 and '09 stacks up***:

1. New Orleans - 281,440 - 179 (08) - 173 (09) - Old rate per 100,000: 64 - New rate: 61

2. St. Louis - 356,204 - 167 (08) - 147 (09) - Old rate: 47 - New rate: 41

3. Detroit - 905,783 - 339 (08) - Did not provide 09 total - Old rate: 37 - New rate - ??

4. Baltimore - 634,549 - 234 (08) - 238 (09) - Old rate: 36 - New rate: 37.5

5. Birmingham - 228,314 - 82 (08) - 66 (09) - Old rate: 36 - New rate: 28.9

6. Jackson, Miss - 174,734 - 63 (08) - 40 (09) - Old rate: 36 - New rate: 22.8

7. Washington DC - 591,000 - 186 (08) - 143 (09) - Old rate: 31 - New rate: 24

8. Baton Rouge - 226,920 - 67 (08) - 63 (09) *Through October - Old rate: 30

9. Oakland, Calif. - 401,587 - 115 (08) - 107 (09) - Old rate: 29 - New rate: 26.6

10. Flint, Mich. - 113,462 - 32 (08) - 36 (09) - Old rate: 28 - New rate: 31.7

***IMPORTANT THINGS TO CONSIDER: as read on the baltimore crime blog (and if CERTAIN CO EDITORS OF THIS HERE BLOG would teach me how to hyperlink, instead of sending me off into the woods a la cult males upon maturation and/or when mother sharks leave their freshly birthed youth behind), Detriot apparently is guilty of frequent withholding of correct murder rates, so read with a grain of salt.