On Jan 3, 2013, at 10:51 PM, Volokh, Eugene wrote:
> Interesting -- I tracked down the transcript, CBS News
> Transcripts, SHOW: CBS MORNING NEWS (6:30 AM ET), April 27, 1994, WASHINGTON
> DC POLICE TRACKING GUN CRIMES WITH COMPUTERS FIND A PATTERN TO VIOLENCE AND
> KILLING, and it seems the data is a bit different:
> STEWART: Altogether, 58 recent violent crimes in Washington have been linked
> by the pilot programs to just a handful of gunmen.
>
> Mr. RITCHIE: We have identified 13 homicides, a couple of assaults, even a
> rape case where the same weapon was used in these cases.
> Maybe there's some other story that I'm missing here, but if this is the
> story, then I don't think it's 13 guns used in 460+ murders - it seems to be
> one gun used in 13 homicides, and "a handful of gunmen" committing 58 violent
> crimes.
That's so amazing -- I didn't even know such research was possible. I tried
tracking this story down when the report was no more than a couple days old
(including trying to contact the poster's pal on the west coast who was
supposed to videotape it) and ran into nothing but brick walls. Thanks for the
effort you put out -- I will keep this transcript next to the original report
in my archives.
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