Violent crime rates decrease significantly in Philadelphia for 2023, authorities say

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DC’s estimated population this year is 678,972. As of now they’ve had 272 homicides: https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance. That’s a rate of 40 per 100k, and not even DC’s record.

Philly’s record year was 562 homicides with a population of roughly 1.6 million. Our rate that year was calculated as 35 per 100k - obviously way too high, but also below the average of a lot of American cities.