Ron McMillan of Move Up and others have asked me to post Kansas City homicide data. Since the mid-1990s, I've received quarterly homicide reports from KC police, with victim name, sex, DOB, race, address of occurrence, victim address and means of attack.
I receive these files 8-10 weeks after the end of each quarter. Now I've formatted files from 1995 through 2005 into Excel spreadsheets. The data appears as received from police, except that I've masked victims' house numbers and added age at death.
There were 1,209 homicides in this city in the 11 years between 1995 and 2005. Some breakdowns by age, sex and race:
Open/Download:
kchomi05.xls
kchomi04.xls
kchomi03.xls
kchomi02.xls
kchomi01.xls
kchomi00.xls
kchomi99.xls
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kchomi97.xls
kchomi96.xls
kchomi95.xls
Interesting statistics. I'm not really sure what they tell us....but they are interesting to look at.
Posted by: G | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 11:26 AM
Asians are pretty safe in Kansas City.
Posted by: | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 01:02 PM
Crack kills!
And there are a lot of Crack Head in our inner city!!
Posted by: Butch | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 02:17 PM
crack heads butch crack heads....
Posted by: Butch | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 03:07 PM
"Interesting statistics. I'm not really sure what they tell us....but they are interesting to look at."
It is pretty simple what the statistics reveal. Don't try and make something more difficult than it is. Someone took my advise and researched the homicide trends. Another thing to take into account is the fact that this is only homicides. Just think of the stats broken down by race and gender for aggravated assaults where the victim survived. The stats at that point would be astonishing. Maybe the meth heads in the suburbs aren't so bad afterall. Think about it?
Posted by: | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 04:27 PM
These statistics are clearly racist. Blacks only make up about 31% of the Kansas City population, but they are being blamed for 67% of the murders. The facts should try to be more sensitive.
Posted by: | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 07:34 AM
People lie... Numbers do not. The high rate of black on black crime should be no suprise. It's been a focus for community activist for years. It's just sad that we as a community can not slow it down.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 08:44 AM
One well known "community activist" was heard to say that the Johnson County folks are partly to blame, because they have "repressed" the inner city players. I guess you can try to lay the blame where ever is convenient but it's not the Johnson county folks up here pullin' the trigger!
Posted by: | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 12:40 PM
>>These statistics are clearly racist. Blacks
>>only make up about 31% of the Kansas City
>>population, but they are being blamed for
>>67% of the murders.
Had you bother to read all of the table data you might have noticed that these numbers for victims not perpetrators. So unless you some how blame the victims for the crime no one is blaming anyone.
>> The facts should try to be more sensitive.
I do not even know where to begin here. So what are you saying? Researchers should fake their data any time it is not politically correct?
Posted by: Brian | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 08:00 AM
why was that person so qiuck to think that this website was blaming blacks, their the victims here....
Posted by: | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 02:12 PM
The problem is we do not jail criminals. Everyone gets a suspended sentence or probation. So instead of jailing the pushers, pimps, thieves and thugs we wait until they are standing over a dead body with a smoking, stolen gun. Then the State will prosecute them and jail them.
We don't need jails! Heck, what we need is another stadium or an arena or maybe a performing arts center.
Our jails are full and our criminals are on the streets!
Posted by: Ben Edsall | Monday, April 24, 2006 at 06:17 PM