LCSO publishes anatomy of a murder project

LEON COUNTY, Florida (WTXL) – The Leon County Sheriff’s Office, in collaboration with the Florida Sheriff’s Association, has published the Anatomy of a Homicide Project, which provides an overview of data on the 141 homicides from 2015 to 2020 in Tallahassee and Leon County.

This report was compiled using the Uniform Crime Report Supplemental Homicide Report (2015-2020), LCSO Investigation Reports, Tallahassee Police Department Murder Data (2017-2020), Leon County Justice Information System, Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LInX), Office of the . creates Public Prosecutor, 2nd Judicial Circuit, Corrections Integrated Needs Assessment System (CINAS-Lite) assessment reports and open source data.

Postal code 32304 was found to be the hardest hit, with 35% of homicides taking place in this area, 24% of victims living there and 12% of perpetrators residing there.

Firearms were used three times more than all other weapon types combined. Black men used firearms in 79% of crimes committed, compared with 45% of white men. In 35% of these cases, the weapon was illegally acquired.

Thirty-three percent of these homicides occurred during another crime, such as robbery or drug dealing.

It was found that the majority of the victims and perpetrators were young black men. 81 of the 108 victims and 86 of the 125 perpetrators were black men. 41 percent of them fell into the 15 to 24 age group.

When analyzing the history of both perpetrators and victims, it was found that 84% of perpetrators and 52% of victims had previous charges.

After the LCSO outlined what all of the data showed, the LCSO concluded with recommendations on how to address some of the key issues.

The department will develop a plan to address the issues and implement these strategies once they are created.

In the meantime, LCSO will continue to work with several different violence reduction programs.

“Churches across the county are working to solve the problems of violence, and there is no magical solution. While we may not be able to completely eradicate violence like a disease, there is evidence that it can be prevented, reduced, and contained. Rising to this challenge is overwhelming and solving a problem of this complexity requires focus, the use of specific resources (people, time, money, tools, etc.), and rigorous and continuous measurement and evaluation. The path to success requires a unified ALLinLEON response from people, authorities and organizations working together to reduce violence in Leon County, ”the department stated in its closing statement.

The department released both the full 90-page report and a summary of the key elements, both of which are listed below.

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