Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 12:11:38 PDT From: Dusty_Kramer.Wbst845@xerox.com Subject: Statistical: US Homicide rates, 1990-1993 To: firearms-politics@ns1.rutgers.edu Homicide Rate per 100,000 Population, United States 1900 - 1993 Source: Statistical Abstract of the United States, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistical Administration 1900..........1.2 1934..........9.5 1968..........7.3 1901..........1.2 1935..........8.3 1969..........7.7 1902..........1.2 1936..........8.0 1970..........8.3 1903..........1.1 1937..........7.6 1971..........8.6 1904..........1.3 1938..........6.8 1972..........9.0 1905..........2.1 1939..........6.4 1973..........9.4 1906..........3.9 1940..........6.3 1974..........9.8 1907..........4.9 1941..........6.0 1975..........9.6 1908..........4.8 1942..........5.9 1976..........8.8 1909..........4.2 1943..........5.1 1977..........8.8 1910..........4.6 1944..........5.0 1978..........9.0 1911..........5.5 1945..........5.7 1979..........9.7 1912..........5.4 1946..........6.4 1980..........10.2 1913..........6.1 1947..........6.1 1981..........9.8 1914..........6.2 1948..........5.9 1982..........9.1 1915..........5.9 1949..........5.4 1983..........8.3 1916..........6.3 1950..........5.3 1984..........7.9 1917..........6.9 1951..........4.9 1985..........7.9 1918..........6.5 1952..........5.2 1986..........8.6 1919..........7.2 1953..........4.8 1987..........8.3 1920..........6.8 1954..........4.8 1988..........8.4 1921..........8.1 1955..........4.5 1989..........8.7 1922..........8.0 1956..........4.6 1990..........9.4 1923..........7.8 1957..........4.5 1991..........9.8 1924..........8.1 1958..........4.5 1992..........9.3 1925..........8.3 1959..........4.6 1993..........9.1 est. 1926..........8.4 1960..........4.7 1927..........8.4 1961..........4.7 1928..........8.6 1962..........4.8 1929..........8.4 1963..........4.9 1930..........8.8 1964..........5.1 1931..........9.2 1965..........5.5 1932..........9.0 1966..........5.9 1933..........9.7 1967..........6.8 From firearms-politics-errors@cup.hp.com Tue May 10 14:09:08 1994 Received: from demon.corp.portal.com (demon.corp.portal.com [156.151.1.10]) by jobe.shell.portal.com (8.6.4/8.6.5) with ESMTP id OAA19953 for ; Tue, 10 May 1994 14:09:08 -0700 Received: from relay.hp.com (relay.hp.com [15.255.152.2]) by demon.corp.portal.com (8.6.7/8.6.5) with SMTP id OAA23819 for ; Tue, 10 May 1994 14:14:09 -0700 Received: from hpda.cup.hp.com by relay.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA18938; Tue, 10 May 1994 14:06:52 -0700 Received: by hpda.cup.hp.com (15.11/15.5+IOS 3.20+OMrelay) id AA18038; Tue, 10 May 94 14:08:38 pdt Errors-To: firearms-politics-errors@cup.hp.com Sender: Precedence: bulk X-Info: Accepted by firearms-politics distribution list at Tue May 10 14:08:37 PDT 1994 X-Info: Submissions to firearms-politics@cup.hp.com X-Info: Change requests to firearms-politics-request@cup.hp.com Received: from hpcuoa.sv.itc.hp.com by hpda.cup.hp.com with SMTP (15.11/15.5+IOS 3.20+OMrelay) id AA17998; Tue, 10 May 94 14:08:28 pdt Received: from ns1.rutgers.edu by hpcuoa.sv.itc.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.11E/15.5+IOS 3.20+cup+OMrelay) id AA268203931; Tue, 10 May 1994 14:05:31 -0700 Received: from alpha.Xerox.COM by ns1.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA00487; Tue, 10 May 94 17:00:25 EDT Received: from WildIrish.wbst139.xerox.xns by alpha.xerox.com via XNS id <14669(6)>; Tue, 10 May 1994 14:00:09 PDT X-Ns-Transport-Id: 0000AA008A10149C318A Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 13:59:57 PDT From: Dusty_Kramer.Wbst845@xerox.com Subject: Re: Homicide data To: firearms-politics@ns1.rutgers.edu Cc: firearms-politics@ns1.rutgers.edu Message-Id: <"10-May-94 16:59:57 EDT".*.Dusty_Kramer.Wbst845@Xerox.com> Status: R Team, First, the message title should have been 1900 - 1993, not "1990 - 1993." >>The homicide rate chart is very interesting. Do you have similar data with any sort of demographics? I assume homicide includes justified killings. Do you have murders? Thanks for posting it! Bob<< Bob, What you received is a compilation of data from the Statistical Abstracts of the United States that I have accumulated over time. I decided to put the data together for my own benefit and thought it should be shared. With respects to demographics, I don't currently have what I think your referring to, although there is a certain amount of demographic comparison data and commentary available in selected criminological literature. The homicide rate figures from 1930 on were probably obtained from the FBI as that is the year they began publishing crime statistics in the form of the FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). It has only been very recently that "justifiable homicides" were compiled and reported separately (1993). In years past, the published homicide figures represented what was submitted to the FBI through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) by the various law enforcement agencies and depended solely on the agencies incident report. If the incident report indicated that a killing was "justified," it would usually not be reported as a murder or non-negligent homicide. However, incidents that are reported as a murder and later determined to be a justifiable homicide (by judicial decree), are still reported as murders. This means that the FBI-UCR always overreports the number of actual criminal homicides. >>Thanks for submitting that data. Interesting to see the effect GCA-68 had. :-( One request: next time don't have the data wider that 80 characters. Replacing those double tabs with a single tab makes it look great. Regards, Gary<< Gary, My apologies. I had prepared that data in a format for transmission on another system. I didn't realize it would cause a problem. And, I haven't yet received a copy back from the net, so I don't even know what it looked like. Regards, Dusty Kramer - ASC, ACJS