Rochester Police say the city recorded 42 homicides in 2016.
The latest final crime data available is for 2015, released in November. According to the NeighborhoodScout.com, a crime reporting website, Rochester reported 33 murders in 2015 and a total of more than a thousand assaults.
The murder rate for every 1,000 people in Rochester was 0.16, three times the national average of 0.05.