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Re:NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again by jacobr on Saturday June 29, 2013 @11:42AM (#5962707)
You need to consider all improvements in trauma care since 1990. Some victims that would have died in 1990 would make it today.
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Re:NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again by krschultz on Saturday June 29, 2013 @12:58PM (#5962991)
If you read the linked PDF, murders are down 83% while shooting victims are down 81% compared to 1993. Meanwhile, robberies are down 79%, rapes are down 54%, assaults are down 52%, etc. Everything is down 50-80% in the last 20 years, not just deaths. I don't think the facts support your narrative.
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Re:NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again by bluedino on Saturday June 29, 2013 @12:03PM (#5962786)
Does anyone have the #'s for say, shootings?
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Re:NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again by epc on Saturday June 29, 2013 @12:17PM (#5962850)
From the linked PDF:

Shooting Incidents YTD 2012: 581, 2013: 423

Shooting victims YTD 2012: 685, 2013: 486

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Re:NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again by zzzz123 on Saturday June 29, 2013 @03:07PM (#5963445)
perhaps aiming abilities decreased? due to drugs?
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Re:NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again by rdouble on Saturday June 29, 2013 @03:09PM (#5963450)
A friend of mine is a specialist trauma doctor in NYC and claims to only work 1.5 hours per day because hardly anything happens.
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