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Article: HOMICIDE RATE: HOW BOSTON, OTHER CITIES COMPARE
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 9, 1989
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The 36.6 percent increase in Boston's homicide rate in 1988
was substantially larger than the rate increases experienced in all
but four other major US cities.
Among the country's 20 most populous cities, only Washington,
San Diego, San Jose, Calif., and Houston experienced homicide rate
increases larger than Boston's. Eight of the country's biggest
cities -- including Los Angeles and Chicago -- had declining
homicide rates.
Boston, the 19th most populous city, ranked 13th in 1988 for
the rate of homicide, two places higher than its 1987 ranking,
according to statistics obtained from municipal police departments
by The Boston Globe.
The homicide rate increased by an average of ...