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To: marktwain

There really is a pressing need for clarity in these statistics. Suicide should be tracked separately from other homicide, and killing homicide needs to be subdivided as well, into murder-homicide, accidental-homicide, reckless-homicide and justifiable-homicide. Finally, murder-homicide needs the traditional subdivision for premeditated murder, murder in the heat of anger, and manslaughter.

Only then, can the additional discriminators of CCW and LEO involvement really make hard and fast sense.


18 posted on 10/06/2013 4:25:38 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

There really is a pressing need for clarity in these statistics. Suicide should be tracked separately from other homicide, and killing homicide needs to be subdivided as well, into murder-homicide, accidental-homicide, reckless-homicide and justifiable-homicide. Finally, murder-homicide needs the traditional subdivision for premeditated murder, murder in the heat of anger, and manslaughter.

The data in this article is for unjustified homicide. Suicides are not considered. All the unjustified homicides are lumped in together.

It is very difficult to obtain the data that could do what you want. The UCR is not very helpful.


20 posted on 10/06/2013 5:03:42 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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