[Vision2020] "Murder" rate in Moscow

[Bill London]

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Thanks for bringing your eagle-eyed media comment back to V2020...
BL


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Coombs" <mushroom at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] "Murder" rate in Moscow


> According to a headline in this morning's Daily News, 
> the "rash of violent crimes have taken toll on Moscow, 
> Latah County." The story says "Despite concerns, Latah 
> County's murder rate isn't high when comparing it to 
> similarly-sized counties."
> 
> And: "With seven murders and 35,600 people in Latah 
> County, the murder rate is .019 murder per 100,000 
> people this year.... In the United States, the overall 
> murder rate was 5.6 per 100,000 in 2006."
> 
> People at the newspaper apparently had no problem with 
> a murder rate of .019 per 100,000. Actually, if you 
> accept that there have been seven murders, the rate is 
> easily calculated to be about 19 per 100,000.
> 
> Also: Some of the homicides were murders, but with 
> living suspects the term would be best saved for 
> application after they are found guilty of that 
> specific crime.
> 
> Don Coombs
> 
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