New Year's Murder Rate Up 31%; Philly On Pace For 635 Homicides

By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net

Philadelphia, which just set an all-time record last year with 562 murders, is already on a pace in the New Year to beat that record, with well over 600 murders.

As of last night, the city had already racked up 17 murders over the first 10 days of the New Year. That's a 31% increase over the 13 murders that the city recor…