What's the worst that could happen
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Sequence of years on the x-axis suggests each data point is a total of known murders to happen in that year. This is corroborated by the black line that marks an average of 23 deaths per year from 2000 to 2019.
Label at the top of the graph indicates the victims should be classified as residents of Portland (probably both legal and criminal). It's possible that the numbers could be inflated by guesswork about the number of residents in '22 and '23, but without a source it's impossible to say for certain.
I understand your confusion. Often times data is intentionally presented in a way that makes it difficult to interpret meaningfully, and it takes considerable effort to train oneself to put it together coherently.
So it is absolute number of murders per year for the whole town with around half-million inhabitants. That's something, thank you.
Questions remains about victims categories and Portland area (and so accounted population) changes.
Then, if categories and town area didn't change since 2019, then that's definitely sign of some severe shit happening in Portland.
Looks like some culture in presenting and spreading data is lost completely. That's sad, really.