Jackson's killing fields shrank as it suffered the fewest number of homicides in nearly a decade in 2025 and less than half of what they were in 2021.
2024: 111
2023: 118
2022: 133
2021: 160
2020: 128
2019: 83
2018: 84
2017: 64
2016: 68
During the Supreme Potentate's reign, each year ranked in the top five annual number of homicides for the city of Jackson. Indeed, Jackson set records in 2020 and 2021. The murder rate skyrocketed, propelling Jackson far past other major cities in America.
2020-2024 saw numbers surpassing the earlier Jackson record set during the crack epidemic.
1995: 92
1994: 91
1993: 84
The number of homicides in 2016 was 68 and that was a ten-year high. There were 64 homicides in 2017. To provide a sense of proportion, the number of homicides in Mayor Lumumba's first full year as Mayor was 84, a twenty-year high. Unfortunately, Jackson will probably still lead the nation in homicide rates as the 2025 homicide rate. By contrast, second-ranked Birmingham's was 59 per 100,000 and third-ranked St. Louis was 58 per 100,000 in 2024.
As JJ stated in 2021:
The number of homicides per year in Jackson ranked in the top five each year during every year of his tenure. Mayor Lumumba ran off a good police chief, demoted his competent command staff, hid crime stats, pushed the DA to prosecute innocent police officers, instituted no-chase policies for almost anything, and benched cops who were dumb enough to defend themselves when fired upon.
Lumumba's true legacy was shattering homicide records as the annual number of homicides ranked in the top five for Jackson for every year he was Mayor - when it wasn't setting records.
Kingfish note: It is amazing what the police can do once "the handcuffs are removed." Thanks to then-JPD James Davis and Mayor Lumumba running off police officers, JPD had less than 150 patrol officers as Jackson became a killing field. The expansion of Capitol Police and beefing up JPD has put more officers on the street. As Chief Vance used to say, "This is not hard. More police officers means less crime."
Not hard indeed.
* Population of 142,000 was used for Jackson.
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FWIW, I heard much less celebratory gunfire than usual last night.
Fewer residents means less people to kill, when the population is 90,000 there will probably be even less murders. Doesn’t mean Jackson is any safer.
The killers got killed off.
Do the statistics just reflect homicides by shooting alone? What about stabbings? I doubt that police presence had anything to do with the drop in volume. CPD if any should be commended for our increased safety. We are thankful for those officers and their service to the city.
These stats are fuzzy. WLBT has tracked them down to a “T” on their site… details and location on every single one that happened. I believe Jackson was 51.8 per 100k with St. Louis 49.4 as of yesterday, Louisville and Birmingham not far behind… Jackson has a better year but so does everyone else. Impressive that HCSO recorded 0. Rural Hinds County FTW!
It is also worth noting that every homicide this year, with maybe the exception of the St. Paddy’s Parade incident, were domestic incidents, meaning the parties knew each other, also meaning the notion that someone will be killed in Jackson at random for eating at a restaurant or shopping is null and void. Would like to see the carjacking/auto theft statistics since Cap PD is now in the picture.
Fuzzy how? Yeah, I'm sure you are going to read the details on all 74 homicides one by one. I told you how I arrived at the homicide rate. Used population of 142,000 which is a census estimate. Nothing wrong with the stats posted and they are not fuzzy.
How many shootings without homicide occurred? Perhaps poor marksmanship is more to blame for the decrease?
How many occurred under Horhn?
Agree with (January 1, 2026 at 10:16 AM). Less people to kill.
11:10, Jackson has two main categories of homicides, where the parties knew each other:
1) domestic violence,
2) gang violence.
It is very telling that category 2 seems to be the one that took off under Chockwe A. Lumumba. And when bullets are flying during shootouts, there is always risk to innocent bystanders.
Wow. Madisonites don’t like these stats. Why can’t you just be thankful that less humans were murdered?
Looks like WLBT's reporting is the basis for most of these historical numbers anyway.
It is also worth noting that every homicide this year, with maybe the exception of the St. Paddy’s Parade incident, were domestic incidents, meaning the parties knew each other, ...
Every homicide but one? BS.
Jackson's projected population:
2030 133,070
2040 119,105
No denying the math. Those obscenely gerrymandered Senate districts like Blount's (S29) will be history.
This doesn't consider the number of shootings where the victims lived. THERE IS NO IMPROVEMENT, just lousy shooting.
Jackson is celebrating poor shooting skills.
To 10:14 I heard a LOT of gunfire last night in Northeast Jackson. It was the worst ever. It seemed to be coming from the Fondren area.
There are lies, there are outrageous lies, and there are statistics.
Wanna thug and kill! Russia needs fighters and they pay really good, pay with your life! We need to ship these killers to Russia cause Jackson will soon run out of victims.
KF's reporting and tracking of Jackson's murder rate pre-dates LeMaster's tracker.
True, but the news station's tracker is more thorough and consistent. They also track clearance rates now.
Nice try, but the source was west of the Fondren.
I'd love to see the before and after murder rates in the area covered by JPD and then the Capitol Police.
My life insurance policy has a clause that not will pay proceeds if I loose my life in the city of Jackson between the hours of dusk to dawn. The name of the policy clause is “common sense “.
"Wow. Madisonites don’t like these stats. Why can’t you just be thankful that less humans were murdered?"
Let me guess: It's because Madison has a lot of white people, and white people hate Jackson and everyone who lives there because they are black, right?
Thanks to Chief Joseph Wade!!
In order to get his strong support and endorsement of John Horhn for Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, somebody might have explained to slow Bennie that the violent crime rates only need to be juuuuust high enough to keep the Republican flight in place that is required for Democrats to continue controlling Jackson, MS forever – but not Defund/Abolish the Police Chokwe Antard Lumumba “Radical” “Killing Field” high.
So now that Antard set the bar at 160…we can all celebrate “only” 74! Yaaaaaay!
A real journalist would go to UMC and report the number of victims just “Dropped off” kicked out of the cars and left. Everynight.. Ask the ICU nurses…..
So this means that Jackson is not the homicide capital of the U.S., just Mississippi?
That is why I put up the 2024 numbers as 2025 have not yet been compiled. If we go by 2024 numbers, Jackson is probably still number one but is much closer to the second and third ranked cities than it was in 2021. The murder rate is nearly half of what it was in 2021.
@January 1, 2026 at 9:36 PM - Hate is a strong word and too easily and generally applied for the purposes of race baiting. Fear or apprehension would be more appropriate for both white and black suburban residents, if for no other reason than getting caught in the crossfire. But maybe you can draw some informed conclusions based on the statistics in breakdowns at the link below.
https://mscrimestats.dps.ms.gov/tops/report/violent-crimes/hinds-county/2025
01/01/26 @5:31pm Common sense says it’s “lose”, and common sense also says you’re a drama queen.
Speaking of lacking common sense, how about the idiots on here claiming that the reason the homicide rate dropped as sharply as it did was due to the population decline. This year’s figure of 74 is only 66% of last year’s figure of 111. No, Jackson did not lose 1/3 of its population just in the last year.
Nice try, morons…
Birmingham and other southern cities are also reporting lowest murder rates in 10 years. Looks like it is part of a larger trend. What gives? I wonder what it is.
But Jackson still remains the deadliest city in the nation per capita.
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