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Re:‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together... by mcbits on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:56PM (#20659482)
What is the definition of "violence" for that chart? Specifically, does it include self-inflicted violence (suicide) and vehicular homicide (drunk driving)? If so, it is much less surprising.
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Re:‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together... by tptacek on Friday August 09, 2019 @09:06PM (#20659514)
From CDC: a violent death is defined as a death resulting from the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or a group or community
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Re:‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together... by ravar on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:12PM (#20659738)
Against oneself, so it includes suicide.
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Re:‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together... by persistent on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:40PM (#20659993)
I believe it does, yes. "All Causes". The problem with excluding it is there's not enough underlying data to get WISQARS to cough up a county-level breakdown. Explore it yourself by starting at https://wisqars.cdc.gov:8443/cdcMapFramework/
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