Keep up the great job New York. Hard to believe that only 35 so far were committed by strangers. The vast majority of the murders were committed by friends, family and other acquaintances.

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New York City is on track to have fewer than 500 homicides this year, by far the lowest number in a 12-month period since reliable Police department statistics became available in 1963.

But within the city’s official crime statistics is a figure that may be even more striking: so far, with roughly half the killings analyzed, only 35 were found to be committed by strangers, a microscopic statistic in a city of more than 8.2 million

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/ny...gewanted=print