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"Homicide is not The Wire. But, maybe because so many of the people who were central to its creative team had developed their skills somewhere else besides television, it was something that no one had ever quite seen on TV before: an experimental cop show. By definition, experiments don't always work, and among the reasons the show never became a popular success, there are some good ones. The editing, with its reliance on jump cuts, could be mannered, and so could the dialogue, which sometimes strained to be clipped and hard-boiled by way of David Mamet. But even when the results were shaky, it was exciting to see so many talented people working without a net. Homicide was both bad and uninteresting only when NBC went too far in tinkering with it in its later seasons, in the forlorn hope that it might become a worthy ratings competitor for Nash Bridges."
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Pim Vanmeurs wrote:
I think you'll find the Netherlands does a pretty good homicide rate.
Indeed 1.2/100,000 total and 0.3/100,000 firearms related
compared to
US 7.6/100,000 total and 4.5/100,000 firearms related
It is disingenous for Kleck to take a quotation of Kellerman's out of
context to make it appear that Kellermann was asserting that only 2%
of of homicides were lawful defensive homicides.
Dan Day wrote:
The study found that having a gun in the home was
not associated with any increased risk of non-gun homicide, only with
gun homicide.
Dan Day writes:
Gun homicide in the home of the victim, Tim, which is what the study
examined.
Dean Payne said:
Centerwall made his comparisons with and without the major (pop. > 1M)
metropolitan areas. With these areas, I get the same numbers you list.
Without, I get 3.1 for Canadian provinces, and 3.7 for the US states.