A few days ago, I talked about improvements to our city homicide map, and today I got to playing around with my database and saw some notable trends for the 37 homicides recorded through March 25. (You can find the map along the right side of this screen)

-First, homicides are down 24 percent.

-For the first 37 victims last year (a number the city hit on March 1), two were female and five were juveniles. There were 31 black victims, four white victims, one Hispanic victim, and one Asian victim.

-This year, there have been no females killed, one juvenile (one-month-old Rajahnthon Haynie), and all victims have been black. If those first two trends continue, you will continue to hear officials tout their work on domestic violence and juvenile offenders, as both areas have been on the decline not just this year but last year as well.

-Through this date last year, each police district had recorded at least one homicide. This year, and let's cross our fingers, the Southeast District has yet to see a murder. The Southern District has just two total shootings, including one homicide.

-As for non-murder trends, it can be summarized like this: Everything is down by double-digits, except home invasions, which are up considerably.