The Cincinnati Police Department is tracking an alarming increase in the number of homicides and shootings in the city for 2020.
Through early Tuesday morning there had been 57 homicides in the city Assistant Police Chief Paul Neudigate told City Council’s Law and Public Safety Committee. That’s a 36.6% increase from the same period in 2019.
“If 2020 continues on the pace that it is, this will probably be the worst year for homicidal violence that we’ve had on record,” Neudigate said.
The increases follow 2018 and 2019, both of which saw the lowest numbers for gun violence in the city.
Demographics for the 57 homicide victims are 42 black males; eight black females; three white males; and three white females. One victim was an unborn baby, and the gender and race were not identified.
