Baltimore 2012 Homicide Stats Released
Each year, the Baltimore Police homicide section compiles statistics on city killings. Here's how some of the data break down:
Murders: 216
Clearance rate (cases closed by arrest or administratively): 47.6
percent
Victims injured in prior years who died this year: 7
Cases from prior years closed this year (which counts toward this
year's clearance rate, per FBI guidelines): 28