Montgomery registered its 38th murder of the year this weekend. That's down from 42 in 2018.
Compare that to the obviously much larger NYC murder rate:
Compare that to the obviously much larger NYC murder rate:
Homicides rose by 29 percent, up to 227 from 176 last year. The victims included a 1-year old boy, Davell Gardner Jr., who was fatally shot when gunmen attacked people at a late-night cookout in Brooklyn on July 12.
The surge in New York City
has been part of a larger trend of shootings in large American cities.
The spike has since become entangled in a fractious debate over the
future of policing, which was sparked by the killing of George Floyd in
May while in police custody in Minneapolis.
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