The rate works out to be about 7 homicides per million workers for the one year.

Hillsborough County had been averaging about 30 to 35 homicides per year in the eighties.

"Right now there are about 35 homicides per year in Boston, down from 151 in 1991," he said.

In the early 1990's, during the crack wars, there were about 80 homicides a year there.

While they process about 380 homicides a year, 500 to 600 other homicides are committed.

New York averages about 2,000 homicides a year.

The area had about 13 homicides in 2008.

Last year the city suffered about 2,000 homicides, between 60 and 70 percent of them committed with guns.

"For the year, we had about 40 homicides, just in this precinct alone."

There are about 20,000 homicides in the United States each year.