Baltimore is not ranked one of many nation’s most crime-ridden cities after steep declines in killings and muggings lately, in keeping with an annual report.
U.S. News & World Report didn’t embrace Baltimore in one among its “Most Harmful Locations within the U.S. in 2024-2025,” an annual checklist usually consisting of 25 cities on which Baltimore has been a current fixture.
The rating relies on FBI knowledge for town’s homicide and property crime charge per 100,000 individuals.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott mentioned throughout his State of the Metropolis tackle Monday that it’s the primary time “in a very long time” that Appeal Metropolis has not been included on the infamous checklist.
“This isn’t a second for celebration,” mentioned Mr. Scott, a Democrat. “That is progress, however we nonetheless have extra work to do.”
In accordance with Baltimore police knowledge, violent crime is down 20% up to now this 12 months whereas property crimes are down 19% in that very same time-frame.
Practically each main crime has seen a pronounced year-over-year decline, with homicides down 26%, nonfatal shootings down 31%, rapes down 38%, theft and carjackings down 24% and assaults down 14%.
The one crime that has ticked up are burglarie,s and police knowledge exhibits even that has solely risen 1% previously 12 months.
Baltimore has been trending on this path since 2023, when town recorded 262 homicides, and thereby ended an eight-year streak of 300 or extra killings per 12 months.
Final 12 months, town noticed solely 197 homicides.
Memphis was the nation’s most harmful metropolis, in keeping with the report. Rounding out the highest 5 was St. Louis; Detroit; Birmingham, Alabama; and Little Rock, Arkansas.
Another notable cities included on the checklist are New Orleans (sixth), Denver (tenth), Minneapolis (eleventh), Portland, Oregon (fifteenth), Philadelphia (seventeenth), Houston (nineteenth), San Francisco (twentieth) and Seattle (twenty first).
