Mike :verified:The final number of homicides recorded in Baltimore in 2023 was 262. That's a 21.8% reduction from 2022. Nationwide there was a large drop in 2022, but the city was immune to the national fluctuations in violent crime during the pandemic. Something happened.
The final 3 months of 2023 were all under 20 killings. If the average for that quarter holds for all of 2024 that would be 204 killings in a year, which would be a 22% drop from 2023.
Going a full year without 30 killings in a month and 3 straight months of under 20 killings are both benchmarks not met for the entire Mosby-Hogan murder epidemic.