dc on pace for fewer than 100 homicides in 2012

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2. Detroit needs some of that mojo

The murder rate in 2012 looks like it will be up over 2011, which is up over 2010.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/detroit-crime-rate-murders_n_1951265.html#slide=1097409

Detroit's high crime rate is spurring 40 percent of the city's residents to plan to leave within the next five years, according to a Detroit News poll. And if they could, 50.9 percent said, they'd leave today.

Detroit police officers seem to agree with residents who feel driven out by crime. Unhappy about shrinking staff, a recently instated 10-percent pay cut and 12-hour shift requirements, they held a rally last weekend warning people downtown for the baseball game to "enter Detroit at your own risk."

The exodus is steady. The city lost a quarter of its population from 2000 to 2010 and residents are still leaving, according to new census numbers that show a 1 percent loss from 2010 to 2011. A Detroit data expert believes the population has dropped below 700,000, though population loss has slowed.