Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Murder stats →
Crime is fascinating, and murder is the most fascinating crime. Every night, millions of Americans watch fictionalized accounts of the most violent act of all, followed by fictionalized attempts to discover, solve, and punish it. Here are some raw numbers to go with our intuitions and popular…
Also worth noting is that murders in the Law & Orders—before they started wrapping up—outnumbered actual murders in NYC for a while. The death of substantive local news-gathering, with the 10pm news turning into b-roll backing the police blotter, is another reason why the American public has dangerously unrealistic views of crime.
I’m wildly liberal enough that the suicide statistic he cites is actually the reason why I’m in favor of gun control, but that’s a land-mine of a topic for another day.
