NUMBER OF MURDERS AND HOMICIDES IN THE UNITED STATES EACH YEAR SINCE 1891, COMPARED WITH THE POPULATION

Number of number of
murders and estimated murders and
year homicides in population homicides
the united of the for each
states united states million of
people

1881......1,266..........51,316,000..........24.7

1882......1.467..........----------..........27.9

1883......1,697..........----------..........31.6

1884......1,465..........----------..........26.7

1885......1,808..........56,I48,000..........32.2

1886......1,499..........----------..........26.1

1887......2,335..........----------..........39.8

1888......2,184..........---------...........36.4

1889......3,567..........---------...........58.0

1890......4,290.........62,622,250...........68.5

1891......5,906..........---------...........92.4

1892......6,791..........---------..........104.2

1893......6,615..........---------..........99.5

1894......9,800..........---------.........144.7

1895.....10,500.........69,043,000.........152.2

1896.....10,652..........---------.........151.3

1897......9,520..........---------.........132.8

1898......7,840..........---------.........107.2

1899......6,225..........---------..........83.6

1900......8,275.........75,994,575.........108.7

1901......7,852.........77,754,000.........100.9

1902......8,834.........79,117,OOO.........111.7

1903......8,976..........---------.........112.0

1904......8,482..........---------...............

1905......9,212..........---------...............

1906......9,350.........---------................

1907......8,712..........---------...............

1908......8,952..........---------...............

1909......8,103..........---------...............

1910......8,975.........91,972,266...........97.5

Total......191,150

We are blood-thirsty enough, God knows, without making things out any worse than they are.  Our murder rate per 100,000 unquestionably exceeds that of most of the countries of western Europe, but, as the saying is, “there’s a reason.”  If our homicide statistics related only to the white population of even the second generation born in this country we should find, I am convinced, that we are no more homicidal than France and Belgium, and less so than Italy.  It is to be expected that with our Chinese, “greaser,” and half-breed population in the West, our Black Belt in the South, and our Sicilian and South Italian immigration in the North and East, our murder rate should exceed those of the continental nations, which are nothing if not well policed.