Quote Originally Posted by detroitsgwenivere View Post
Not everyone is jumping on the "Detroit murders are lower than 1966" bandwagon:

http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/artic...t#.WlOAsGZy6hd
I doubt Detroit is doing anything that the other cities are not doing. You could argue that Detroit's rate may have been inflated in past years because the city has been counting situations as homicides that other major cities have not.

And I don't think Chicago even reports their stats to the FBI. Or at least they have gone years without doing so.

Finally, the actual rate is still very high. This is just a nice PR spin to point out that the absolute number is low.