November 24, 2007

THE REMOVAL OF RANDOMNESS IS SECURITY:

New York murders 'at 40-year low' (BBC, 11/23/07)

New York City is on track to have fewer than 500 murders in 2007, the lowest annual rate in four decades, according to police department figures. [...]

According to the New York Times, of the 212 murders in 2007 analysed so far, only 35 were committed by a stranger.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 24, 2007 6:18 AM
Comments

There you go. Take out all the typical critter actions and we are safer from crime than all those places around the world with restrictive gun laws.

Home invasions, car-jackings, ATM strong-arms--those are the crimes which concern us,and those are precisely the ones deterred by armed citizens.

This data bears most directly on the pending D.C. RKBA case.

Posted by: Lou Gots at November 24, 2007 9:33 AM

And if they caught that stranger, NY would have even fewer murders. If they caught him LAST year, they would 35 fewer murders in 2007.

Posted by: terrence at November 24, 2007 7:33 PM
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