{"id":3927,"date":"2007-11-23T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/11\/only-35-homicides-in-nyc-were.html"},"modified":"2007-11-23T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T08:12:00","slug":"only-35-homicides-in-nyc-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/11\/only-35-homicides-in-nyc-were.html","title":{"rendered":"Only 35 homicides in NYC were committed by strangers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a city of over 8 million people, that<\/a> is absolutely amazing!<\/p>\n

New York City is on track to have fewer than 500 homicides this year, by far the lowest number in a 12-month period since reliable Police Department statistics became available in 1963.
\nBut within the city’s official crime statistics is a figure that may be even more striking: so far, with roughly half the killings analyzed, only 35 were found to be committed by strangers, a microscopic statistic in a city of more than 8.2 million.
\nIf that trend holds up, fewer than 100 homicide victims in New York City this year will have been strangers to their assailants. The vast majority died in disputes with friends or acquaintances, with rival drug gang members or – to a far lesser degree – with romantic partners, spouses, parents and others.
\nThe low number of killings by strangers belies the common imagery that New Yorkers are vulnerable to arbitrary attacks on the streets, or die in robberies that turn fatal.
\nIn the eyes of some criminologists, the police will be hard pressed to drive the killing rate much lower, since most killings occur now within the four walls of an apartment or the confines of close relationships.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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