It may seem like 2021 has started off deadlier in the city of Richmond than it was in 2020, but homicide numbers are the same at this point -- a total of 16.

Rick Edwards, Richmond's interim police chief, provided an update on crime in the city more than four months into 2023 during a public safety briefing Wednesday at Richmond Police Headquarters.

Richmond’s overall crime rate in 1995 (again, the earliest record we could find) was 103 offenses per 1,000 residents, according to our computations from FBI data. That is the highwater mark ...

Violent crime dropped by 7% year-over-year, despite a 31% increase in homicides, but property crime — up 3% — is a much larger percentage of crimes committed, leading to the overall increase.

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At the briefing, Chief of Police Rick Edwards discussed Richmond's crime statistics from 2023 and talked about what the department believes caused the rate of some crimes to go down. Topics such ...