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In reply to the discussion: Who kills women with guns? [View all]GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)69. Most murder victims have criminal record. Check out this:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-08-31-criminal-target_N.htm
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In Baltimore, about 91% of murder victims this year had criminal records, up from 74% a decade ago, police reported.
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Philadelphia also has seen the number of victims with criminal pasts inch up to 75% this year from 71% in 2005.
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In Milwaukee, local leaders created the homicide commission after a spike in violence led to a 39% increase in murders in 2005. The group compiled statistics on victims' criminal histories for the first time and found that 77% of homicide victims in the past two years had an average of nearly 12 arrests.
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In Newark, where three young friends with no apparent links to crime were executed Aug. 4, roughly 85% of victims killed in the first six months of this year had criminal records, on par with the percentage in 2005 but up from 81% last year, police statistics show.
The same type of pattern holds across the entire U.S. Most murder victims are themselves criminals.
You may wish to take a look at the Burea of Justice Statistics report: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/mf.pdf It is rather lengthy but here are some highlights:
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In Baltimore, about 91% of murder victims this year had criminal records, up from 74% a decade ago, police reported.
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Philadelphia also has seen the number of victims with criminal pasts inch up to 75% this year from 71% in 2005.
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In Milwaukee, local leaders created the homicide commission after a spike in violence led to a 39% increase in murders in 2005. The group compiled statistics on victims' criminal histories for the first time and found that 77% of homicide victims in the past two years had an average of nearly 12 arrests.
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In Newark, where three young friends with no apparent links to crime were executed Aug. 4, roughly 85% of victims killed in the first six months of this year had criminal records, on par with the percentage in 2005 but up from 81% last year, police statistics show.
The same type of pattern holds across the entire U.S. Most murder victims are themselves criminals.
You may wish to take a look at the Burea of Justice Statistics report: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/mf.pdf It is rather lengthy but here are some highlights:
Seventy-four percent of murder defendants
had a prior criminal record of arrest
or conviction for a crime. A substantial
percentage of murder victims, 44%, also
had a prior criminal record. However, 19%
of family murder victims had a prior record,
compared to 51% of nonfamily murder
victims. Also, 56% of family murder defendants,
compared to 77% of other murder
defendants, had a prior record.
had a prior criminal record of arrest
or conviction for a crime. A substantial
percentage of murder victims, 44%, also
had a prior criminal record. However, 19%
of family murder victims had a prior record,
compared to 51% of nonfamily murder
victims. Also, 56% of family murder defendants,
compared to 77% of other murder
defendants, had a prior record.
A little over half of the defendants in family
murders, but over three-quarters of defendants
in nonfamily murders, had been
arrested in the past (table 7). Defendants
were more likely than their victims to have
a criminal history. Nevertheless, 44% of
murder victims (51% nonfamily and 19%
family) had a prior history of arrest or
conviction.
murders, but over three-quarters of defendants
in nonfamily murders, had been
arrested in the past (table 7). Defendants
were more likely than their victims to have
a criminal history. Nevertheless, 44% of
murder victims (51% nonfamily and 19%
family) had a prior history of arrest or
conviction.
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i think there has been too much attention given to the "scary strange man in the streets"
JI7
Jun 2013
#5
You only laugh because you yourself wouldn't be subject to the invasion of privacy
NutmegYankee
Jun 2013
#49
Most people who own cars never kill anyone with them either. But we still register them and
Squinch
Jun 2013
#76
I expect some reasonable legislation to be forthcoming over the next few years.
Lizzie Poppet
Jun 2013
#37
She is at far greater risk of being killed because of having a gun in the house
BainsBane
Jun 2013
#36
You have already decided to believe that, no matter what studies are posted.
GreenStormCloud
Jun 2013
#75
Of course, the trick is not to hook up with violent men. My gun has saved me...
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#83
It's very clear that a gun in the home makes a woman far more vulnerable to murder
BainsBane
Jun 2013
#85
I don't think the evidence is clear at all. Whether a gun is used or not, it is clear
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#86
You apply the lessons personally, but they should not take them that way?
Threedifferentones
Jun 2013
#121
just complete your bigotry circle already and get to the racial spreads of violence in America...
galileoreloaded
Jun 2013
#138