http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...cord.html?_r=0
"After the April death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died from injuries sustained while detained by the Baltimore police, the city had its worst riots in more than four decades. Now, the city is waiting warily as legal proceedings against the six officers charged in Mr. Gray’s death move through the courts. But Baltimore is also in the throes of another crisis: A sharp increase in homicides that, by the end of the year, left the city with the highest per-capita murder rate in its history.
Residents, analysts and policymakers here are divided over the precise cause of the surge in homicides. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake fired the city’s police commissioner, Anthony W. Batts, over the summer, calling for change during a surge in crime.
Below are some of the key figures from a violent year. (All data comes from Open Data or the Baltimore Police Department unless otherwise noted.)"
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