Our interracial homicide database is being upgraded

During the 90s, New Orleans consistently had one of the highest homicide rates of any large city in America. However, the 2006 and 2007 homicide rates for New Orleans rank among among the absolute highest […]

If you listened to the mainstream media, you would hear that homicides are way up, but “it’s not nearly as bad as the crack wars of the early 90s.” Of course, this is a falsehood. […]

In 2021, Chicago had 846 homicides, of which 794 were killed by gunshot. Another 4,542 people were injured by gunshots. Cook County, which includes Chicago, had a total of 1,009 homicides in 2021, an explosive […]