[Vision2020] "Murder" rate in Moscow

[J Ford]

What do you base the "no other homicides in the next six months" on?  Just 
because you want it that way or do you have something concrete to base this 
hope on?



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>From: Don Coombs <mushroom at moscow.com>
>Reply-To: mushroom at moscow.com
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] "Murder" rate in Moscow
>Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:20:11 -0700
>
>
>
>Tom Hansen wrote:
> > In my opinion the murder rate per 100,000 population is truly 
>irrelevant.
> > The murder rate should be analyzed on a per-year basis.  To me that 
>would be
> > considerably more significant.
> >
>
>I appreciate the comments from others about the
>published "murder" rate.
>
>I don't think Moscow has suddenly become a bad place to
>live, but neither do I think murder rates are
>irrelevant. They are rates, and I assumed everyone
>would assume they were calculated on a per-year basis.
>I'm pretty sure that's what the Daily News attempted,
>and went ahead on the assumption there would be no
>incidents in the next six months.
>
>I'm good with that.
>
>Please remember, though, that all murders are killings,
>but not all killings are murders. We depend on the
>judicial system to determine if a killing is murder.
>
>Don Coombs
>
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