Baltimore has surpassed New York City in homicides

The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday (http://bsun.md/1gYUgmw ) that Baltimore’s homicide rate is 34 killings per 100,000 people, while New York’s is 2.5 per 100,000.

Baltimore is now experiencing almost a homicide a day, a murder rate that is reminiscent of 1990s crime levels when the city regularly saw upwards of 300 murders a year. Baltimore recorded its 212th murder Wednesday night time.

Baltimore has already surpassed the number of murders for all of a year ago, with more than four months of 2015 still.

Perhaps the most unnerving aspect of this is the fact that NYC is populated by a massive 8.4 million people, while Baltimore is the home to a mere 620,000.

Patrick Semansky-AP A member of the Baltimore Police Department removes crime scene tape from a corner where a victim of a shooting was discovered in Baltimore on July 30, 2015.

A judge says New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board can not access the grand jury minutes in the case against a police officer who held Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold.

New York peaked with 2,245 homicides in 1990, however that quantity has been tumbling and hit a historic low in 2014, with 328. The uptick came after rioting in the spring over the death of Freddie Gray, the black man critically injured in police custody.

With a population of 2.7 million people, Chicago’s homicide rate is about 10.4 per 100,000 people to date.

Chicago has seen the most killings of any city, with 284.