“ To put the numbers into perspective, in 2020 St. Louis was the country's deadliest large city, cataloguing 87 homicides per 100,000, "and that was clearly at the top of the list of larger cities," Rosenfeld said. "Jackson is now exceeding that level."
From the other day’s link…..
http://www.cnn.com/2021/12/28/us/jackson-mississippi-pandemic-homicides-gun-violence/index.html