Chicago's pattern of homicide is more similar to the patterns in New York and Los Angeles than to Detroit's. Detroit's massive increases in homicide in the late 1960s, as their industrial economy fell apart, dwarfed the increases in Chicago, LA, and New York City. Still Chicago's declines are not nearly as sharp as New York or LA's. Chicago's rate has stayed more than twenty per 100,000, about half Detroit's rate, nearly three times as high as New York City's, and half again as high as LAs. Other US cities, like New Orleans, despite some recent successes, have homicide rates in Detroit's range. But, to put things in a different frame, look at how London compares with Chicago and New York.

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