Original title: 77% of murders in the United States are related to guns! This city has the highest murder rate per capita!
Beijing, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) according to US media reports, according to the data of the Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI), the number of murders in the United States increased by 30% to 21570 in 2020. According to the statistics of "24 / 7 Wall St.", the city with the highest per capita murder rate in the United States is St. Louis, Missouri.
According to the "24 / 7 Wall St." website, the murder rate in the United States is 6.5 per 100000 people. However, the murder rate is much higher in many cities in the United States.
According to the statistics of the network, the city with the highest per capita murder rate in the United States is St. Louis, Missouri. The city reported 263 murders in 2020, and 88.1 people per 100000 people were murdered.
In addition, a prominent data point is that 77% of murders are related to guns.
According to the statistics of the "gun violence archives website" of the United States, since 2016, more than 230000 people have died in gun violence in the United States, and another 193000 people have been injured in gun violence.
The Pew Research Center reports that the 30% murder growth rate in 2020 is the largest growth rate since 1905. Even after carefully examining the data, Pew is unable to give a comprehensive explanation for this growth. The new crown pandemic may be one of the reasons. Painful social change may be the same.