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Why do we track homicides versus shooting and stabbings? A homicide just means the victim didn’t make it. There are tons of victims that live which is a way better barometer of violence in my opinion. How many shootings and stabbings would be a better indicator of danger.
To see which method was brought out. Knife related murders could mean more aggression over guns. If City A has 90% of deaths from Guns, versus City B with only 55% of deaths from guns... we need to change how we approach reducing crime between the two cities. They will usually (typically) have very different crime compositions.
Why do we track homicides versus shooting and stabbings? A homicide just means the victim didn’t make it. There are tons of victims that live which is a way better barometer of violence in my opinion. How many shootings and stabbings would be a better indicator of danger.
Those stats are a lot harder to find as a lot of cities don’t track them. That being said, statistically guns are universally the leading cause of homicides in major city.
Regarding shootings. On average for every person shot and killed in NoLA, two survive. St. Louis & Baltimore are closer to 1:3. DC & Philly are ~1:5, while Chicago is ~1:6.
Why do we track homicides versus shooting and stabbings? A homicide just means the victim didn’t make it. There are tons of victims that live which is a way better barometer of violence in my opinion. How many shootings and stabbings would be a better indicator of danger.
Because it’s easier to narrow down data if it’s just homicides. Shootings go unreported all the time. For example in my home city of Fort Worth, the local newspaper said there were 388 shootings victims in 2021. However, out all of the data I saw I could only come up with approximately 300. For homicides, they will certainly be reported because it results in atleast one deceased individual. Non-fatal shooting and stabbing data is just hard to keep track of.
Shootings are at least 3-4 times the amount of homicides in a city. Especially major city
Yep. Detroit, DC & Baltimore routinely brush up against 1k non-fatal shootings a year. Philly was north of 2k in 2021. Chicago had 4.4k that same year.
Week 1 of 2023 was posted by the Atlanta PD on their website, and as of 1/7 it had 0. Not sure about the second week but I haven't heard of any.
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