10. Minneapolis
Minneapolis concluded 2023 with 86 murders and one justified homicide, the latter of which is not a crime. In 2022, Minneapolis had 83 murders, including three justified homicides, the latter of which is not a crime. According to the commonly accepted definition of murder, homicides increased in Minneapolis in 2023 (86 to 83), but remained below the three-year, post-Covid/George Floyd norm. Murders in Minneapolis in the 2020s are about double those in the late 2010s. However, a strange anomaly emerges in the city’s historical crime database, known as the Legacy Crime Dashboard. The dashboard reports 86 killings in 2022 and 74 in 2023.
