Miami Keeps Getting Safer: Record Low Homicides To Start 2023

Miami has enjoyed extremely low homicide rates and gun violence in the last few years, and it is dropping even further in 2023, according to the Herald.

The reduction in crime comes even as Miami’s population is surging, making the drop even bigger on a per capita basis.

From the beginning of the year through early March 2023, there have been just just four homicides and ten people shot in the entire city, the report said.

By comparison, at this time last year there had been 34 people shot (but last year was still one of the safest in decades).

In the past two years, there have been 97 combined homicides – less than 50 per year each year, and the lowest since 1964.

One big difference from 1964 – Miami has at least 100,000 more residents now than it did then, making the per-capita drop much more significant.

The Herald noted that in the 1980s, there were nearly 300 annual homicides in the city.

 

 

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Stop
6 months ago

This is great news. However, the gangs of teenagers on dirt bikes flaunting traffic rules barreling through our neighborhoods and donuts in major intersections needs to stop.

Anonymous4SaferRoads&Walkways
6 months ago

We in Miami and Florida must focus on stopping drag street racers, not pointlessly attacking drag queens! Come on Gov.

Drag racers are killing people and causing a nuisance; where as drag performers are legally entertaining and bringing in tourism and light. The roadways have become death traps for pedestrians. Checkout footage of donuts spinning by pedestrians recently. Grateful that Miami City Commissioner Sabina Covo is addressing this major problem, and hopefully this comes to an end!

We need better sidewalks and crosswalks and bike lines in our urban cores, along with stronger enforcement against speeding, revving engines, driving illegal vehicles, and running red lights.

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/not-accepted-within-our-community-miami-addresses-reckless-driving-in-brickell/2987321/

Anonymous
6 months ago

Commissioner Covo is asking citizens to report street racing and dangerous drivers using this 24-7 hotline. See something, say something! ¡Ver algo, decir algo! 1-855-352-7233

(Just wish it was an easier to remember number like 311…)

Guest
6 months ago

I live in Downtown, and the bikes and dirtbikes come by almost the same time every day. The cops just sit at the corner and watch, if they wanted to do something they could. I guess they enjoy the entertainment.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Need to crack down on dangerous drivers…literally saw some nut case blow through a stop sign going at least 50 mph without even tapping the brakes in a residential area as I was walking my dog without any regard for anyone’s safety…

Anonymous
6 months ago

I almost got swiped too! My friend got his foot run over. People are being killed or gravely inured every day and the rivers run off!!! Add cameras, create a reporting system, and add speed bumps in residential areas. They can’t speed and do donuts if there are speed bumps. That would make too much sense?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Booohooohooo, lets outlaw driving – sounds like the North Easter Transplants cant handle the driving around here.

Anons
6 months ago

Nobody is opposed to safe driving. People just don’t want terrorism on the roads. Respect other drivers and pedestrians and ensure public safety.

NYC Transplant
6 months ago

As a northeastern transplant, I can tell you that toleration for the Miami-style “left hand on the wheel, right hand holding the cellphone at eye level” phenomenon is far less common up north, and there are actually specific statues making it a major violation. That single-phenomenon seems to be responsible for a large number of dangerous driving actions here in Miami. It’s really one of my only complaints.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Someone should open a UTV and dirt bike track to give people a place to play with these toys, not on our city and residential streets where people are walking and trying to make a living.

Stop Depraved Hearts
6 months ago

There are too many hit and run drivers. It can be charged as manslaughter murder or depraved indifference to human life.

Anon
6 months ago

This weekend I saw an illegal UTV briefly stop at a light and then speed through. Another car pulled up behind, and ran the red light too. I was the only one stopped. Lack of enforcement emboldens people to repeat criminal acts.

anonymous
6 months ago

i live right near douglas and coral way so naturally people cut through the side streets to beat traffic and its insance. You call the city and complain and they do nothing. There is one street a block away that has a speed hump and thats it.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Too many homeless in the parks though.

Anonymous
6 months ago

What happened to “stay in a shelter or be arrested”?

Anonymous
6 months ago

They should be sent back to the state they came from

Anon
6 months ago

New York, New Orleans, and Atlanta probably

Hello!
6 months ago

We should give them jobs so they could be reinstated into society!

Goodbye!
6 months ago

There are plenty of jobs for them to TAKE yet they do not do so or can not do so

Anonymous
6 months ago

Oh yes, it’s just that simple 👌 why didn’t anyone else think of that?

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

It IS possible, it’s just that people don’t care about the less fortunate and don’t want even a miniscule amount of their tax money to go to proven methods like therapy and guaranteed but temporary jobs and housing, and instead want it to be spend in more expensive and ineffective ways, like heavily armed police and drug busting.

Bikes + Ferries FTW
6 months ago

you realize this has been extensively tested around the country and its absolute anarchy right? How do people like you still exist

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

It hasn’t actually been tested large-scale in the US.

Anonymous
6 months ago

When your bleeding heart gets assaulted on the street by one of these poor, downtrodden less fortunate, we’ll see if you still feel the same way.

Anonymous
6 months ago

There are shelters for people who don’t contribute – prison or San Francisco.

Anonymous
6 months ago

The homeless need psychiatric care first. Once mental needs are taken care of than they can hold a job

RenRich
6 months ago

Amen! It’s much better to punish multitudes of people with the disease of addiction.

Melo is sigma and chad
6 months ago

I was homeless, many dont want a job. We need to accept not everyone has a sob story.

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

The real solution is that of many European countries (which have drastically lower homelessness) giving free (but small) housing so that they could get back on their feet and get a job (With conditions, obviously, like requiring the person be employed after a certain amounts of months) so that they can focus on that and not where their next meal will be. The government should also provide therapy for any people struggling with addiction to prevent homelessness.

Stop
6 months ago

They do that in LA and New York. Newsflash, handing over free homeownership to addicts doesn’t work.

Anonymous
6 months ago

New York City and LA do not do this, and studies say that doing so actually lowers crime, drugs, and helps the economy, so you’re wrong on pretty much every account

RenRich
6 months ago

Big empty narrow minds.

Anonymous 2.0
6 months ago

Anonymous grifting

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

Newsflash, doing your research is important before blurting out false opinions is not a good idea

Here is a study to back my previous claim:
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol22num2/ch4.pdf#:~:text=In%20June%202019%2C%20The%20Guardian%20ran%20a%20piece,what%20the%20United%20States%20can%20learn%20from%20it.

Anonymous
6 months ago

^^gee, not like that “study” is biased or anything coming from a gov’t HUD site……

Anon
6 months ago

This…isn’t Finland.

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

And? Is there something fundamental about the Finnish culture that makes them less susceptible to homelessness…. apart from empathy?

Anonymous
6 months ago

If not the culture then the weather–Finland is cold as hell, that’ll get you working for a roof over your head.

Anon
6 months ago

I shouldn’t have to point our the differences between the United States and Finland. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of geopolitics knows this is an absurd comparison.

MM305
6 months ago

So true Anon, you can’t crash the entire city budget to save a handful of homeless people… BTW @notanonymous this article is about how amazing the city of Miami is doing right now. Its not about homelessness.

RenRich
6 months ago

Too bad.

Anonymous
6 months ago

There is rarely any “back on their feet”, as most on the streets now never were on their feet in their adult lives to begin with. Most homeless here and now are drug addicts, crazies, and the eternally lazy—they’ll tear up the free housing, and on taxpayer dime. There are literally 2 job openings for every job seeker, if you can’t pull it together now then you’re basically hopeless. The problem is you. Either you make personal life changes or you’re sunk. If they’re truly insane, then the only hope is institutionalization.

Anonymous
6 months ago

bravo..well said

Bikes + Ferries FTW
6 months ago

the real solution is that europe has intact family structures and an effective shame culture. This doesn’t apply to the country of 350m outcasts which is america. Nordic countries policies are completely irrelevant to governing America. To any good faith person this is painfully obvious. Apples != Oranges

Anon
6 months ago

Right. It’s an absurd comparison.

Anonymous
6 months ago

We need to stop paying people to be social media stars and pump their butts and faces with plastic. They’re going to end up on the streets one day if they don’t focus on inner beauty and education. Promote holistic values!

Melo is sigma and chad
6 months ago

Muh Europe, can yall stop lumping in a area that ranges greatly. Paris and Rome have huge homeless populations.

RenRich
6 months ago

I’m baffled by the amount of down thumbs for such an obvious and very clear cut idea.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Their next meal is the van that feeds them downtown. That’s why they all go there. How about parking that van somewhere near the hospital where they could get care?

Rob
6 months ago

I’m European. That sounds great but not true. Europe is a continent and it is as fucked up or worse than here, that may be Finland and that’s it, but Europe in general is a suitable once you get out of the tourist areas

Anonymous
6 months ago

The parks need to be upgraded into places that don’t look like homeless camps. If we make them really nice the homeless will find more shabby places to not disrupt people. Those “parks” look out of the way now.

Anonymous
6 months ago

We just need separators on benches so they can’t turn the benches into bed. We need more security to make sure they don’t use the parks as their homes.

Anonymous
6 months ago

They lay down all day in the parks playing with their iPhones and iPads so no wonder we have some downvotes here.

Name*
6 months ago

Just a couple here and there — Miami isn’t LA – not even close

Anonymous
6 months ago

I moved from NYC (Manhattan) to Miami and I truly appreciate walking around without having to look behind all the time.

Anon
6 months ago

Miami is doing great work, but NYC has half the murder rate of Miami I believe

Anonymous
6 months ago

You believe wrong

Anon
6 months ago

49/440,000= 11.3 murder rate per 100,000 in Miami. 433/8,400,000= 5.15 murder rate in New York City. Turn off Fox News and join the real world 🙂

Anonymous
6 months ago

The TNM report says that, from January to March 2023, there were only 4 homicides in Miami. You’re talking about x homicides for every 100,000 people in Miami. Someone is very wrong about these numbers.

Anonymous
6 months ago

those are the 2022 statistics… did you even read the article that TNM attached?

Anonymous
6 months ago

Precisely. The report talks about a sharper decrease in homicides in 2023. You cannot use numbers from 2022, because that is not the scope of the discussion.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Your reading skills must be off since the first line of the article says “part of a long and often overlooked trend.” Two months worth of data also isn’t enough to make a characterization of a city’s safety

Don Lemon's real world
6 months ago

I bet those extra 384 people murdered in MYC feel better that at least the per capita rate is slightly lower than Miami’s.

Name*
6 months ago

Stay in NY

Anonymous 2.0
6 months ago

Anon, off his meds and posting from Shutter Island

MiMiami
6 months ago

Bayside Park and Downtown need to be cleaned up. Too many homeless.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Museum Park is getting better but I hate the gates. Just because of them, we need to have gates on our parks.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Ferrè Park is nicer now with less homeless. Hopefully we get that number to zero.

Anonymous
6 months ago

simple…stay tough on crime…and dont release criminals that have multiple felonies

Anonymous
6 months ago

In addition to not having a state tax, this reduction in crime rates is also one of the factors that is bringing new residents to Miami, coming from other places, such as
New York and California.

Anon
6 months ago

New York has a lower crime rate than Florida

Anonymous
6 months ago

I am from NYC and I’ve been in Miami for 5 years now. Miami is soooooo much safer!

Not Anonymous
6 months ago

Let’s hope it stays this way, especially with pathetically high rents pushing working class people to the brink. This city needs to overhaul its infrastructure and invest in affordable housing if it wants to keep growing healthily and safely.

????
6 months ago

Are we talking City of Miami or Miami Dade County?

Anon
6 months ago

City of Miami– 49 homicides for a population of 440,000

Anon
6 months ago

It’s wild to me our population is so small. Miami Beach and Miami should be one city IMO. Would make accomplishing things like the baylink a lot easier…..

Anonymous
6 months ago

Totally, it feels like the counties have much more power and population in FL than in other parts of the country where the major cities assume the roles (and land mass and population) of the would be county

Anon
6 months ago

Yes it’s the opposite down here. County has all the power, the city is neutered. I feel it’s backwards. Miami needs more control of itself.

Anon
6 months ago

Agree the city is run by the DDA but it’s weirdly districted in a way that makes no sense and doesn’t fit with the masterplan for Miami. Replace the DDA with a city wide governing body and separate the suburban single family
Homes into their own cities, and focus on denser Miami as its own city.

Anonymous
6 months ago

Agree there should be a stronger Miami government address the common issues that come up, with redistricting to allow for more commissioners to represent more communities. The commissioners represent too vast of areas to really hold any local interests in mind.

Anonymous
6 months ago

They do. The cities are just honorary, like the monarchy. The county leaders yield the biggest power because they hold the tax money.

Anonymous
6 months ago

It is the cars you need to worry about not the guns. By far the worst drivers here than anywhere else in the country. Your chances of getting seriously injured by walking or driving is far higher than any other city in the country. I don’t see this getting any better considering the way the city is designed.

Name*
6 months ago

What about county wide ? Especially in the City of North Miami ?