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Homicides are included. If you had kept reading you would've seen that the next sentence is:
> Homicides reflect the number of victims and are not based on the incidents.
It appears that homicides have generally been below, and haven't risen above, 2017 levels.
> See, that's the thing about crime stats: they only tell you successful convictions.
It's not mentioned specifically but it's implied that these are reported incidents rather than convictions:
> Incidents that are unfounded or unsubstantiated have also been excluded from the dataset.
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Homicides are included. If you had kept reading you would've seen that the next sentence is:
> Homicides reflect the number of victims and are not based on the incidents.
It appears that homicides have generally been below, and haven't risen above, 2017 levels.
> See, that's the thing about crime stats: they only tell you successful convictions.
It's not mentioned specifically but it's implied that these are reported incidents rather than convictions:
> Incidents that are unfounded or unsubstantiated have also been excluded from the dataset.