RE: Civilian legal defensive homicides

2008-10-28 Thread Joseph Horn
:52 -0500From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Civilian legal defensive homicides Clearly, the UCR definitions and police practice are both designed to create the false APPEARANCE that CLDHs are few and far between. Once again lying with statistics

RE: Civilian legal defensive homicides

2008-10-28 Thread dthardy
Also remember that police reporting to UCR is voluntary. Lots of small PDs don't bother, even with major cases. I once compared murder rates as reported by coroners (I forget the database now) vs. UCRs, and there was a major difference, a thousand cases a year or so. With self-defense not

RE: Civilian legal defensive homicides

2008-10-28 Thread Philip F. Lee
PROTECTED]: Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Civilian legal defensive homicides Clearly, the UCR definitions and police practice are both designed to create the false APPEARANCE that CLDHs are few and far between. Once again lying with statistics. This is deliberate

Re: Civilian legal defensive homicides

2008-10-24 Thread Joseph E. Olson
Clearly, the UCR definitions and police practice are both designed to create the false APPEARANCE that CLDHs are few and far between. Once again lying with statistics. This is deliberate. Don't forget that even this corrected number (13%) VASTLY UNDERSTATES the security impact of DGU's