'This is not normal': Cape sees 15 shootings in less than a year

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4. DC and Baltimore

Who have some of the more stringent gun laws in the country experienced huge spikes in murders last year.

In Baltimore, the number of killings reached 344 last year, up from 211 a year earlier, the report stated. (This was the deadliest year there since 1993, according to the Baltimore Sun.) Washington had 162 homicides, up from 105 the year before, while Chicago reported 465 homicides, compared with 411 the previous year.

And this from the same story:

When we have asked criminologists about increases in crime or violence — either nationally or in specific places — they often respond the same way: Yes, it may be up, but it is so much lower than it used to be.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/21/homicides-were-up-last-year-in-some-major-u-s-cities-just-three-cities-saw-most-of-the-increase/?hpid=hp_local-news_pn-homicides-1230pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory