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11-24-2007, 12:00 PM
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This statistic is hard to believe
__________________________________________________ ____________ 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 
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11-24-2007, 12:07 PM
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 Edit: I guess defining the word acquaintance is important here....most drug dealers are killed by other drug dealers...etc. But if you take a look around B-more with its 300 dead a year, the vast majority are miscellaneous shooting victims almost guided more by neighborhood the acquaintance.
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11-24-2007, 12:10 PM
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Why is this hard to believe? It's been well known for a long time that most murders indeed happen among people who know each other.
If you are a bad guy, doing bad things, and hanging around bad people... well, chances are bad things will happen to you. Random murders are the exception, not the norm. Juan
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11-24-2007, 03:40 PM
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11-24-2007, 08:59 PM
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You've been watching too much TV, man.
I've never been to Oakland, though I hear it's bad... NYC is not, and has never been, as bad as it is sometimes depicted on TV.  There ARE a lot of murders, but - as you stated in that statistic - they are mostly among bad people hanging out with even worse people.
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11-25-2007, 03:28 AM
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 New York is a very safe city. There are police everywhere these days, and they have spent the money to clean up many of the bad neighborhoods.
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11-25-2007, 09:02 AM
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Thanks Ed Norris.
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11-25-2007, 09:47 PM
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I don't care, its 500 too many.
The NYPD rises to one hell of a challenge every day, and I respect the hell out of them for that, but saying 500 murders a year is like ultra light cigarettes. sorry.  away. I don't care.
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11-25-2007, 10:01 PM
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11-25-2007, 10:15 PM
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Yes, 500 murders in one year is a lot, but you have to put the number in the proper context. It is 500 murders, or about 1.5 murders per day, in a city of 8.5 MILLION people! And that in a country where buying a gun is almost as easy as buying bubble gum.
Is 500 murders too many when considering those facts? 
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