The FBI has something called the Uniform Crime Reporting Program which publishes a report every year called Crime in the United States. Law enforcement agencies submit data about crime in their area, the FBI compiles it, and from this we know, for instance, that 16,692 persons were murdered last year and overall, 78.7% were male, […]
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Crime in the United States
October 9th, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: Homicide Facts · New Websites, Books and other Resources
Clearance Rates Up?
October 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Clearance Rates Up?
Are NYPD homicide clearance rates headed back up? According to an August 28th article in The Telematics Journal, which I am not familiar with, “Informatica Corporation today announced that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has successfully implemented enterprise data integration technology from Informatica to help power its highly successful Real Time Crime Center. […]
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100 Years Ago in New York
September 5th, 2006 · Comments Off on 100 Years Ago in New York
Murder was worse! (If I did my math correctly.) One hundred years ago, in 1906, 255 people were murdered in New York City. The population of New York was 3,437,202 in 1900, and it was 8,085,742 as of 2003. At the 1906 murder rate, 600 people would be murdered this year. Murder has gone up […]
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New York Pretty Safe, Dallas Not So Much
July 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off on New York Pretty Safe, Dallas Not So Much
From The Insurance Journal, June 26th, 2006. The following chart shows where New York City ranked in the Total Crime Index for the nation’s largest cities. Rank Year End 2005 City Rate/100,000 1 Dallas 2 Detroit 3 Phoenix 4 San Antonio 5 Houston 6 Las Vegas 7 Philadelphia 8 San Diego 9 Los Angeles 10 […]
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