June numbers are in and the stat spreadsheets to the right are updated.

I noticed that Baltimore City (District 1), PG County (District 5), and Baltimore County (District 8) were all holding pretty steady from May, but the rest of the state had a sharp uptick in criminal cases filed.

So if it wasn’t the usual offenders, who was it?

District 12 (Garrett, Allegany) dropped some and District 11 (Frederick, Washington), District 10 (Howard, Carroll), District 9 (Harford), District 7 (Anne Arundel), District 6 (Montgomery), District 4 (Calvert, Charles, St. Mary’s), and District 3 (Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne’s, Talbot, Caroline) were all almost exactly the same as in May.

District 2, meanwhile, went from 1063 to 1792- a nearly 68% increase! And while Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, and Snow Hill (it’s on the Eastern Shore off 113 between Berlin and Pocomoke City, if you were curious) didn’t have much change, Ocean City jumped from 330 cases filed in May to 1066 in June.

Note that in the chart above, Ocean City is included in “Rest of MD” and the spike in “Rest of MD” is almost entirely due to the spike in Ocean City. As a matter of fact, excluding Ocean City the number of criminal cases filed state-wide in the District Court of Maryland FELL 500 from May to June (a 3.26% decline).

Ocean City grows from a year-round population of around 7,089 to a population of 350,000 over the summer (The first number comes from the Census, but the second comes from The Sun, so… you know…).

Comparatively then, the increase in criminal cases filed- averaging around 85.5 from January to April and nearly as many (1066) as Anne Arundel County (1391) in June- is relatively mild. After all, that’s over 49 times more people with only 12.5 times as many criminal cases filed.

If The Sun was right…