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Alas.
We hit the 100th murder mark over the weekend. And this big 1-0-0, as you know, is not a cause for celebration. Early Saturday morning at around 5 a.m., Jose Alberto Chel Camara, 21, and Jaiber Nah Carballo, 20 were shot and killed on 18th Street and South Van Ness. (The assailants were "described as two men in their 20s, but it was unclear whether one or both were the shooters" and no arrests have been made, yada, yada, same horrible story, different day.) These two homicides forced SF to break the unenviable 100-murder barrier this year. Hopefully, someone will take on the equally unenviable task of helping the city see a reduction in the growing murder rate. Starting... now. Ideally.
In 2006 SF saw a total of 85 homicides, 96 in 2005, and 88 in 2004 -- a fairly steady and frightening increase.
And seeing as how the police department and City Hall always enjoy asking for help from the public when it comes to crime, any suggestions on how to curb SF's climbing rate? We're sure they'd love to hear from you.
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SF: second most walkable city, first most killable.
maybe the guys who got murdered were trying to steal a baby and the shooters were trying to do a good deed. maybe.
the Chronicle (imagine that) just had a great series of articles about what it called the "culture of murder." sadly, the stories didn't offer a lot of fresh insight or anything close to a simple solution, but still are worth a read:
http://tinyurl.com/2bxbzb
Can someone explain to me how:
is a steady increase? 88, 96, 85, 100 ... seems kind of up and down, no?
Even if it were a steady increase, 4 years is hardly an adequate sample to show trends...
You're right, civic-minded dcranston. My mistake. But looking at the forest through the trees, it's an increase nevertheless.
Here's where you can see the trend:
1985 - 85
1986 - 114
1987 - 103
1988 - 92
1989 - 73
1990 - 101
1991 - 95
1992 - 117
1993 - 133
1994 - 91
1995 - 104
1996 - 82
1997 - 59
1998 - 58
1999 - 64
2000 - 59
2001 - 63
2002 - 68
2003 - 74
2004 - 88
2005 - 96
2006 - 86
2007 - 100 (to date)
For the past 23 years, SF's murder rate really hasn't changed. In the late 90's and early 2000's it dropped, but more or less, SF has always had a relatively stable murder rate. the low is 59, the high is 133, and most of the time it's been somewhere in the middle (keep in mind SF's population has been pretty much the same throughout as well) The average for the whole stretch is 87.
Data is from the Dept. of justice, and the SFPD.
thanks, Rah. (ah, the good ol' days of 1998!)
hehe, yeah...Of course the 100 we have now is a big increase over then, and the numbers have been steadily rising since then...but with the big picture taken into account, it's pretty much the same old stuff for all the thugs I guess.
What I want to know is what the hell was going on in 1993 that made it such a murder-fest.
The same thing it's been since the ealry 80's...crack? Gangs too of course. then you have to take into account the medical care of the time. Nowadays it seems we routinely have gunshot victims who even in 1993 would have been as good as dead. For instance the guy who was shot in the head a couple days ago in the Fillmore...10 years ago he might have been a goner. Many people who survived violent attacks in 2007 might have been more numbers on the homicide list in 93...