Tuesday, March 11, 2008

No news is good news

It could be good luck, bad aim, more police, emergency room expertise, or a sign of things getting better, but something unusual happened in Flint during January and February; nobody got murdered.

Flint Homicides
January 2008: 0
February 2008: 0

January 2007: 5
February 2007: 6

January 2006: 9
February 2006: 4

January 2005: 3
February: 2005: 3

January 2004: 1
February 2004: 5

January 2003: 2
February 2003: 0

January 2001: 1
February 2001: 1

Stats courtesy of The Flint Journal


6 comments:

  1. I never thought of that! So does that mean we'll have to wait another four years for the murder rate to drop again?

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  2. No, but should that day count as credit if there is a murder on the last day of March?

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  3. Wow what a great find this blog is. I grew up in Flint, Graduate Flint Northern and then attended UofM-Flint and moved to San Francisco in 1994. I've lived in the Bay Area for about twelve years.....

    True Random Story, I sat next a to a woman from Flint in Jury Duty last week...

    Thomas D. No Blogger ID yet.

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  4. The only reason it went down was because it was to cold and had to much snow.

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  5. Maybe it was too cold outside to go out and murder people during January and February.

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