Worst Genocide EVER With 106 slayings in 2024, Mississippi’s largest municipality is on pace to retain the morbid moniker of “America’s Murder Capital.”

With 30 days left until the new year, murder cases investigated by the Jackson Police Department reached triple digits after another homicide was confirmed Monday. 

Encouragement from two consecutive calendar years of decreased violence in the capital city is somewhat dampened by the total staying above the century mark since a more than 62% increase from 2019 to 2020 when 133 killings took place. The bloody swell has softened since a staggering 160 murders in 2021, but Jackson has still held the highest per capita murder rate for major U.S. cities two years running.  

With 106 slayings in 2024, Mississippi’s largest municipality is on pace to retain the morbid moniker of “America’s Murder Capital.” The city’s law enforcement leaders are now asking what it means and what can be done about it.