For the Record Books, Hopefully Never to Be Repeated
What was already reported as bad just got worse in Cincinnati in 2006:
CINCINNATI (AP) — The city’s record year for homicides jumped to 89 after three cases were reviewed and reclassified, a coroner said.
The revisions include a woman whose body was found floating in the Ohio River, a man who was shot during a robbery at his home and an elderly woman whose death at first was believed to have been from natural causes, Hamilton County Coroner O’dell Owens said Friday.
The city said previously that it closed out 2006 with 86 homicides, four more than anytime since police began keeping consistent records in 1950.
That total of 89 represents roughly 27 per 100,000, based on the city’s upwardly revised population of 331,130. For fans of this previous post, that’s within striking distance of the worst year in New York City’s history (1990, at 30.7 per 100,000), and just a shade less than half of the violent death rate last year in Iraq of 56.49 per 100,000, based on high-end estimates reported earlier this month.
It’s a quagmire! We should cut and run. Redeploy to Okinawa. I demand an investigation! And I certainly question the timing of this…
Comment by Matt Hurley — January 16, 2007 @ 9:33 am
#1, a lot of people have redeployed to the burbs.
Comment by TBlumer — January 16, 2007 @ 10:46 am