The most common murder is of a person with a long criminal and violent history, by another person with a long criminal and violent history. They usually occur in geographically small areas know for crime and violence, where people have no faith in the police. David Kennedy has done enormous work in showing that this is so, as has John Lott. However, what most people don’t understand is that this “acquaintance murder” number also includes gang members killing other gang members, drug buyers killing drug pushers, cabdrivers killed by customers they picked up …read more
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