[This data has been updated]
Each year, the Baltimore Police homicide section compiles statistics on city killings. Here's how some of the data break down:
Murders: 217
Clearance rate (cases closed by arrest or administratively): 47.4 percent
Victims injured in prior years who died this year: 7
Cases from prior years closed this year (which counts toward this year's clearance rate, per FBI guidelines): 28
Cause:
Arson: 1
Blunt force: 7 (3.6%)
Handgun: 181 (83.4%)
Knife/sharp object: 20 (9.2%)
Shotgun/rifle: 2
Strangle/suffocation: 2
Vehicle: 1
Other: 3
Gender:
Male: 196 (90.3%)
Female: 21 (9.7%)
Race:
Asian: 1
Black: 204 (94.4%)
Hispanic: 1
White: 10 (4.6%)
Age groups:
Juvenile: 11 (5%)
Adult: 206 (95%)
35 and over: 72 (33.2%)
25-34: 68 (31.3%)
24 and under: 77 (35.5%)
Motives:
Argument: 14
Arson: 1
Child abuse: 6
Dispute over money: 2
Domestic: 3
Drugs: 3
Neighborhood (dispute?): 1
Retaliation: 3
Robbery: 10
Other: 10
Unknown: 163
District:
Central: 15
Southeastern: 11
Eastern: 36
Northeastern: 27
Northern: 24
Northwestern: 28
Western: 30
Southwestern: 32
Southern: 14
(Known) suspects with criminal records: 79.1 percent
Suspects with drug arrests: 61.6 percent
Suspects on parole and probation at time of killing: 23.3 percentS
uspects arrested for prior gun crimes: 45.3 percent
Victims with criminal records: 82.3 percent
Victims with drug arrests: 68.4 percent
Victims on parole and probation at time of death: 24.2 percent
Victims arrested for prior gun crimes: 37.7 percent