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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by oldgradstudent on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:38AM (#35451112)
7.1 per 100,000.[1] This is a large increase in recent years.

Just in 2014, the national average was 4.5 per 100,000.

And these numbers are several times that of large European cities.

Still, this is not as bad as Oakland, with a homicide rate several times that.

[1] https://abc7news.com/feature/san-francisco-bay-area-safety-t...

[2] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by Hoyadonis on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:40AM (#35451131)
Your second link is to statistics from 2014.
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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by oldgradstudent on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:55AM (#35453343)
>> Just in 2014, the national average was 4.5 per 100,000.
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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by Jochim on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:26AM (#35455791)
> 7.1 per 100,000.[1] This is a large increase in recent years.

There were 10 more in 2022 than in 2014[0], which was the low point for homicide rates nationally[1]. The absolute number is fairly flat and per-capita rates are well down on 2000s levels[2].

[0] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rat...

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murd...

[2] https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-San-Francisco-Californ...

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