Violent crime trends down sharply in Jacksonville in 2021

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Despite each the hard quality successful 2021, determination was a affirmative inclination successful Jacksonville -- the city’s homicide numbers went importantly down for the archetypal clip successful years.

According to News4JAX data, homicides dropped by 28% from 2020 to 2021, portion the fig of radical changeable was down 22%.

In 2021, Jacksonville reported 128 homicides. Of those, 106 are considered murders. Last year, the metropolis reported a 23-year highest of 176 homicides with 141 of those considered murders.

“Hopefully, it’s a inclination and not conscionable happenstance,” News4JAX transgression and information adept Ken Jefferson said.

He said spot successful instrumentality enforcement and equitable policing are cardinal successful checking crime.

“I deliberation there’s been an effort by the JSO to amended assemblage relations,” Jefferson said.

(Editor’s Note: Our records disagree somewhat from those the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office releases due to the fact that for investigative reasons, JSO includes immoderate homicides for 2021 that did not hap successful the calendar year.)

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Even though the rates of homicides and shootings were down this twelvemonth -- a longer look astatine the information paints a much analyzable picture.

Guns were inactive progressive successful the immense bulk of the city’s homicides -- astatine slightest 84% to beryllium exact. (That fig mightiness beryllium higher, but successful immoderate cases, the origin of decease is not known oregon has not been released by authorities.)

And arsenic for Jacksonville’s astir deadly areas -- the 32209 ZIP codification successful Northwest Jacksonville had the astir homicides yet again with 21. The country with the 2nd astir homicides was ZIP codification 32206, which includes the Springfield, Eastside, and Brentwood neighborhoods. That country had 15 homicides reported.

“The areas that you spot that are somewhat impoverished oregon is poorness stricken is wherever you’re going to spot astir of your convulsive crime,” Jefferson said.

But Jefferson said unit tin interaction immoderate of us, careless of ZIP code.

“Everybody should beryllium acrophobic due to the fact that determination are radical that unrecorded successful Mandarin who person their children thrust each time connected the Northside to spell to school, truthful careless of wherever it’s happening, it affects each of america present successful Jacksonville,” Jefferson said.

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AJ Jordan, who works with families of transgression victims arsenic an outreach coordinator for MAD DADS successful Jacksonville, said adjacent 1 convulsive transgression is 1 excessively many.

News4JAX information shows, successful 2021, 435 radical were changeable successful Jacksonville -- down from 554 radical changeable successful 2020.

“That’s an issue. That’s a batch of radical being changeable truthful we inactive request to enactment connected getting the shooters disconnected the street,” Jordan said. “It’s drug-related, gang-related -- and immoderate of it’s domestic. You cognize it’s a batch of antithetic variations of it.”

Editor’s Note: Since the instauration of Marsy’s Law, News4Jax has relied connected sources to supply immoderate homicide-related accusation that would typically travel from instrumentality enforcement, including the determination of immoderate crimes. The information we enactment distant successful this nonfiction and the representation below, including ages of victims and wherever crimes were reported, was compiled from those sources, instrumentality enforcement and our reporting successful the field.

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