Posted December 24, 2016 12:50 pm by Comments

By Dean Weingarten

Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-

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While the site HeyJackass.com is not an “official” tabulator of homicides in Chicago, they seem to do a fairly credible job. They show that 9 out of about 700 homicides in Chicago this year have been listed as from self defense, and there are 11 listed as police related. That is close to the official ratio listed in the FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) for the nation, which show police justified homicide a little bit greater than non-police justified homicides. Both of those numbers are significantly under reported. Only about one out of five non-police justified homicides are caught by the UCR. It appears that about half of justified police shootings are recorded in the UCR.

Nationally, the clearance rates for homicides is about 63 percent. We know that most homicides occur among criminals and their criminal associates. Most of them are not legally able to possess firearms. They have a significant incentive to avoid the authorities. In Indianapolis, police are wondering how many of the unsolved homicides were justified. From fox59.com:

During recent months, IMPD commanders were discussing whether some of …Read the Rest

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