A new report from a public safety group found that Miami-Dade County’s homicide rate is way down since 2020 — especially in ZIP codes that had some of the highest rates just five years ago.
Scaling Safety is a community-based public safety initiative operating in five areas around the U.S., including Miami-Dade. Using local medical examiner data, Scaling Safety found the county experienced a 39% decline in all types of homicides and a 42% overall drop in firearm-related homicides. Their report was published last week.
Most notably, the report points out that two Miami-Dade ZIP codes saw significant drops in homicides: 33147, which comprises a swath of Liberty City, and 33142, which includes parts of the Allapattah and Brownsville neighborhoods…