Baltimore homicide rate topped big US cities in 2017, FBI says

New crime statistics released by the FBI place Baltimore’s homicide rate last year well above that of any other large U.S. metropolis.

The 342 homicides notched last year in Maryland’s biggest city yielded a punishing homicide rate of 56 per

100,000 people, according to the FBI’s annual Crime in the United States report released Monday.

Next were Detroit, which last year recorded a homicide rate of 40 per

100,000 people; Memphis, Tennessee, with 28 per 100,000; and Chicago, with 24 per 100,000.