The city I live in is the home of an SEC school and has had over 150 homicides this year

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The count in Baton Rouge was 153 as of November 29th, no telling what it is now. That is more than Birmingham, a city twice the size. It is even more than Atlanta has had. Brian Kelly and his wife will love it here.

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The count in Baton Rouge was 153 as of November 29th, no telling what it is now. That is more than Birmingham, a city twice the size. It is even more than Atlanta has had. Brian Kelly and his wife will love it here.

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I bet Brain Kelly will have a pretty tall chain link fence around his property. He should be safe.

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Homicides are rising at a record pace in the United States. According to a recent FBI report, there were a total of 21,570 murders committed in 2020, the most of any year in the last two and a half decades and up nearly 30% from 2019 -- the largest annual increase on record.

The spike in homicides came during a tumultuous year. The COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools and left millions of Americans out of work. Footage of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer rattled confidence in American law enforcement and sparked nationwide protests. Firearms sales soared, and tens of millions of new guns proliferated across communities nationwide. Here is a look at the states where gun sales are surging.

Some experts speculate that each of these factors likely played a role in rising homicide rates nationwide. While it may be years before the precise causal factors are identified, many U.S. cities are bearing the brunt of the rash of deadly violence. In metropolitan areas across the country, the increase in homicides last year eclipsed the national surge -- in some cases, many times over.

College Station-Bryan, Texas, is one of 21 large U.S. metropolitan areas where homicide cases doubled or more last year. There were 10 murders reported in the metro area in 2020, up from five in 2019. The increase in homicides in the area came amidst a 15% annual increase in violent crimes overall.

Despite the recent trend, College Station-Bryan remains safer than much of the rest of the country. The local murder rate of 3.7 for every 100,000 people is well below the U.S. rate of 6.5 per 100,000, as is the overall violent crime rate of 298 per 100,000, which compares to the 388 per 100,000 national rate.

All data in this story is at the metro area level from the FBI. Only metro areas with populations of at least 250,000 residents and at least one homicide in 2019 were considered.

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The city I live in is the home of an SEC school and has had over 150 homicides this year

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Brian Kelly and his wife will love it here.

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