New York City celebrates day without violent crime
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#2What a beautiful thing to report. A significant reduction from 1990's six murders per day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City).
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#4> Despite a July spike in homicides, the city's murder rate is on target to hit its lowest point since 1960.
> Just a few months ago, residents were living through what one tabloid newspaper called the "summer of blood".
And so we see a major problem with news sources.
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#5> Despite a July spike in homicides, the city's murder rate is on target to hit its lowest point since 1960. > Just a few months ago, residents were living through what one tabloid newspaper called the "summer of blood". And so we see a major problem with news sources.
Sensationalism.
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#6Someone on Reddit posted that this could just be the effect of victims not being found, as in the perpetrators got better at hiding bodies.
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#7Someone on Reddit posted that this could just be the effect of victims not being found, as in the perpetrators got better at hiding bodies.
> Someone on Reddit posted that this could just be the effect of victims not being found, as in the perpetrators got better at hiding bodies.
The quickest way to support this would be to check the number of missing persons cases; specifically, check to see if the people who used to get murdered (presumably young minority males) are now going missing instead.
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#8I thought it was The Onion at first..
Re: New York City celebrates day without violent crime
#9What a beautiful thing to report. A significant reduction from 1990's six murders per day ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City ).
Does anyone else think it's odd that that link only records 600 murders in NYC in 2001? I would expect the number to be closer to 3,000.
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#10Have the Beeb given up on editors for their website? The first sentence is so unlikely to be true, "a day entirely without violent crime", really? I could perhaps accept this if they added the word "reported". But the following statement that "Monday was the most bloodshed-free 24-hour period in recent history" is devoid of meaning, if a spokesman really said this then they should be fired. "Least bloodshed" has meaning, "most bloodshed-free" is simply idiotic. And yes, people who talk about "50% less" when they mean "half as much" are also exposing themselves as people who do not understand what they are saying. Hmmm, more coffee required.