{"id":566,"date":"2009-05-05T16:02:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T20:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2012-07-10T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:29:17","slug":"interesting-article-about-cold-cases-and-crime-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Article about Cold Cases and Crime Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wellford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-567\" title=\"wellford\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wellford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a great article by Matt Stiles and Terri Langford in the Houston Chronicle called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/headline\/metro\/6405088.html\">&#8220;Murder figures can be hard to solve<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Charles Wellford, professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, pointed out how a police \u201ccold case\u201d unit in Kansas City brought another 15 solved cases for a particular year to its annual murder clearance tally. The department then issued two sets of numbers for that year to explain what it did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should get the benefit of clearing homicides from the previous year &#8230; \u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I looked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccjs.umd.edu\/facultyprofile\/Wellford\/Charles\">Dr. Wellford<\/a> (pictured) on the University of Maryland&#8217;s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice&#8217;s website, and what an impressive background he has. Among his interests he lists\u00a0<span>\u201c<\/span>Measurement of white collar cr<span>ime,&#8221; a pet peeve of mine. Also on the website: \u00a0&#8220;Charles Wellford has been named a lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) &#8220;in recognition of extraordinary service to the National Academies in its role as advisor to the nation in matters of science, engineering, and health.&#8221; He was the first criminologist to receive this honor. Dr. Wellford served for six years as chair of the NAS Committee on Law and Justices.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Go Dr. Wellford!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a great article by Matt Stiles and Terri Langford in the Houston Chronicle called &#8220;Murder figures can be hard to solve.&#8221; From the article: Dr. Charles Wellford, professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, pointed out how a police \u201ccold case\u201d unit in Kansas City brought another 15 solved cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-98","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}