Jackson remained murder capital USA in 2024. The Times (U.K.) reported:
For four years running Jackson, Mississippi, has recorded the highest homicide rate of any American city, cementing its reputation as the murder capital of the US. In south Jackson, a precinct renowned for its gang violence, the restaurants that once advertised catfish dinners have fallen into disrepair, and fentanyl addicts push trolleys down the side of the road.... Jackson, by comparison, had 77.8 homicides per 100,000 people last year. That rate is 15 times the national average, according to FBI data.... The capital, Jackson, where four in five residents are black, suffers from ageing infrastructure, with residents regularly warned they must boil water before drinking it from the tap. Security guards sit on the sidewalk outside the few downtown restaurants that stay open at night.... Deputy Chief Sequerna Banks, 56, oversees murder investigations at the Jackson police department. “The majority of our homicides are committed where the victim and the suspect know each other, domestic situations,” she says. “It’s never just random shootings happening.” Banks says that children are upgrading semi-automatic handguns and rifles into automatic weapons using “switches”, allowing them to spray bullets in imitation of the gangster videos they have seen on TikTok and Instagram. The youths, some as young as 12, can rarely cope with the powerful recoil on their weapons, making them poor shots but often resulting in a careless burst of gunfire into surrounding homes and vehicles. “We have actually arrested more juveniles than you can imagine for capital murder or murder that were using switches,” she says.... Photos and rest of article
Kudos to Mayor Horhn for allowing his police department to cooperate with the newspaper. Click on the link to the article and there will be a chart comparing Jackson's murder rate to other cities.
36 comments:
The city is recognized worldwide as the worst and most violent city in the nation. A ghetto hellscape that only compares to Johanesburg South Africa and the Favelas of Rio. All the bad old racists of Jackson’s past have been 1000% vindicated. The blacks cant control themselves!
This is not a result of systemic racism.
There is no such thing as GUN Violence.
Shut zoo. Give land to Amazon. Let Amazon build data center or whatever. Utilize airport and trains and highway system. Watch things improve
I guess they didn't bother to find out the
truth about the water being good. And
why we have boil water notices. They
working on the system.
Nope! Fake News! Chowke has insisted that there are no gangs in Jackson and that it's just a perception of crime. Right?
(Deputy Chief Sequerna Banks, 56, oversees murder investigations at the Jackson police department. “The majority of our homicides are committed where the victim and the suspect know each other, domestic situations,” she says. “It’s never just random shootings happening.”) “NEVER”? That’s a mighty bold statement!
It will likely be the highest again this year, even though Homicides are down +/- 45% right now. You can check out the WLBT Jackson Homicides page for more details. They track them independently and do a great job. Us and St. Louis, MO are in the race for #1.
It’s a disgrace what has happened to Jackson.
Jackson is the capitol and central dumping ground of the poorest most uneducated populace in the United States. Most of the people who have migrated to Jackson come from socio-economic backgrounds that are marginal at best and dysfunctional at worst. Both black and white young well-educated people are not attracted to Mississippi, and especially not Jackson, hence the downward spiral. Middle and upper middle class people both black and white do not
wish to live in proximity to those dysfunctional types who now dominate so many Jackson neighborhoods. Until this trend is reversed, Jackson has severe problems.
Did he mention the Capitol Police?
Never random is simply incorrect.
If we could only turn downtown into a veritable Shangri-La and legalize pot then none of this would be an issue.
Simple reason Jackson has a high murder rate. It’s a culture issue. When are solutions going to acknowledge the culture issue that causes the murders? Black on Black crime is not even reported as a problem in this country. Why is that? Where are the marches in Jackson over it? No one, including Blacks, cares about this issue.
Current EOY estimate is 79.
58/365 = 0.2164
0.2164 * 365 = 78.99
This is up from the 68 I last predicted a couple weeks ago when homicides were in the mid 40s.
Jackson is gearing up for the big finish!!!
For the life of me, I can’t imagine anyone would want to be the mayor of Jackson.
The time for political correctness is over. People are dying. African Americans have got to stop shooting people.
How many have been committed within the newly created Capitol Police District ?
8:34 Be careful what you say about people. The "bad ole racists" of the past oppressed and terrorized ALL people of a certain race or background, no matter what their behavior or actions might be. They can never be "vindicated" by just or Christian people who judge individuals as they would themselves wish to be judged. Be careful what you say lest you be misunderstood. You are not a Hitler. I hope.
@9:49, the EOY estimate cannot be based on that formula because the murder rate isn't linear. As I recall, murders in Jackson tend to spike from June - September, but they usually drop off in the fall. Of course it's Jackson, so there's always a possibility the ferals will have a party that results in a half-dozen "succumbing" in any given weekend.
This is the result of LBJ's master plan. Kids having kids having kids having kids...those proverbial chickens have come home to roost. They have become feral.
Jackson coroner's motto: "Business is dead"
11:00 AM Whatever you say. The end results speak for themselves. Society as a whole was safer. Maybe people back then just knew things. As if they read history books instead of watching sitcoms?
It's an ESTIMATE that assumes the current rate (x per y day). If there's a spike it throws it higher. This estimates a minimum. Unless an act of God happens and no more murders are commited then it would be locked in at what the current number is. The minimum is the current but it could hockey stick and go to 130.
Also if you look at the cumulative homicides per year it's a fairly linear graph. The question is the slope.
Chokwe's legacy
@11:11's comment is the nit of an apologist.
In this case, that "bad ole racist" was none other than LBJ. He did more to destroy the black community than the outgoing mayor did to this city.
Knock it off. You comment on every post the capitol should be moved. I don't approve them and am not going to, Johnny One Note
how about you knock it off you netanyahu cock sucking faggot
Yes, Jackson Murder rate is going down because these young fools done killed off each other!
Jackson reached the the tipping point sometime right before Baby Chok's second term. It finally became aware to most (caring) people in the Metro that Jackson's demographic and resulting culture simply no longer could foster an orderly society. Yes, crime has gone down to only 15 times the national average, but everyone knows that could change at any time.....because the culture just. doesn't. care. As Kim Wade so correctly opined: "The Jacksonian majority sees way too many things as a death penalty. Someone cuts you off in traffic? Kill 'em. Someone "disrespects" you? Kill 'em. You want someone's car? Take it and kill 'em.
John Horhn may be better than baby chok, but he's only one man.....and when the majority of the population is pretty OK with the way things are going, that's a problem one man's administration can't solve.
Jackson is like a long-term alcoholic: it's got to first ADMIT it has a problem before it can solve it. And it won't.
bring in the national guard and let them patrol south jackson, west jackson, downtown. i guess basically the whole thing
The reasons Jackson is a shithole are numerous.
The culture scene sucks. You can go to the shining star - the race museum once - and you'll know everything you need to know about Jackson.
The airport is a monument to our racist past. It's a shame local officials can't seem to celebrate anything but race.
The climate sucks.
Mosquitoes prevent you from enjoying the outdoors most of the year.
The Ross Barnett Reservoir is shallow, the water is brown, there are no beaches and it basically sucks.
People here are difficult to understand to anyone who speaks English as their primary language.
The "style" scene is laughable. High fashion is a new camo baseball cap.
All the oft-mentioned stuff - potholes, mediocre restaurants, the culture of religiosity (hey. If prayers and waving your hands worked, we'd have solved our problems long ago), an embarrassment of a zoo, third world pregnancy and std rates, a failing school system and real estate values that are dropping instead of appreciating. There is simply nothing GOOD about Jackson. And anyone who says there is is to dumb or to poor to move.
Hey 11:00, try making an argument without the terms "Hitler", "Nazi" or "Fascist." Those terms have been so overused and bastardized that when seen no one with discernment bothers to consider what is being said.
Saying "Hitler", "Nazi" or "Fascist" dooms your post to having no merit and being nothing more than an attempt to demonize those with a better argument than you.
1000% true. But you did leave off corruption.
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