Title: Indianapolis is experiencing record homicides in 2020, and nobody really knows why
Headings: Indianapolis is experiencing record homicides in 2020, and nobody really knows why
Indianapolis is experiencing record homicides in 2020, and nobody really knows why
The Discouraging Numbers
Total homicides in Indianapolis 2015-2021
Non-fatal shootings in Indianapolis
Not Just Indianapolis
Homicide increases across the country
Why?
Moving Forward
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Content: Asher is the co-founder of AH Datalytics, a crime data consulting organization. Even with the increases in homicides nationwide, the murder rate in the United States has remained lower than it was in the early 1990s. In 1991, the United States saw 9.8 murders per 100,000 people in the country. In 2018, it was down to 5 murders per 100,000 people. “I don’t want to minimize an increasing American tragedy, but it’s also important to have that context that we’re not in the early 1990s when murder was nearly twice as much as it is now,” Asher said. Despite the issues with violence, crime as a whole is down nationwide. “We talk about crime with a capital C,” Asher said. “ That is down, and it’s down in 2020. … I think it’s important to be precise that crime is continuing to fall in the country, and it’s going to fall in 2020, but murder is up. “And that’s a very specific problem.”