Any way you put it, parts of Detroit have far too much violence and crime.
The latest FBI report shows that while murders in Detroit dropped from 267 last year from 303 in 2016, violent crime overall is up.
In 2017, 13,796 violent crimes were reported — murder, non-fatal shootings, rape, assault and robbery — in the city compared with 13,705 in 2016, the FBI reported, according to Christine MacDonald of The Detroit News.
Detroit's rate of 2,057 violent crimes per 100,000 people placed it second highest among cities with more than 100,000 residents, below St. Louis and above Baltimore, Memphis and Kansas City.
St. Louis recorded the most murders per capita in the U.S. in 2017 with 205 murders, a rate of 66 per 100,000 people, followed by Baltimore, with 342 murders and a rate of 56 per 100,000. Detroit was No. 3, recording 40 murders per 100,000 residents.
Nationally, violent crimes decreased .2 percent in 2017.
