Wry Catcher
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #141
maybe 3-4 years ago?...no link on this jake....i heard this on npr radio driving home from work when i was still in California,and this was a show about gun violence in California, the panelist were 4 police chiefs and the attorney general....and the AG said if you take away the gang shootings in this state and then look at the stats cals shootings drop a whole bunch of percentage points making it a pretty safe place comparatively...and they all felt there is no reason it should be any different in any other state....i reported this a couple of days after i heard this in one of our gun violence threads...so its out there in print....Reputable links, please
Do you recall the date, not exact, but the year?
I retired in '05, Two areas of our county (1,000,000 pop.) registered somewhere around 90% of the murders (a guess, but by serving on a Death Panel, where all deaths were discussed (juvenile and adult) it was pretty clear drugs, gangs and poverty were the secondary cause, followed of course by the primary cause of murders, the gun.
so in whose hands were a lot of those guns and how many were killed by those?....
I can't answer that question. We studied all deaths using Corner Reports, Police/Sheriff Reports and by reaching out to all county departments on their interaction, if any, with the diseased. Most teen deaths and the deaths of young adults were "at the hands of another"; in those cases a gun was the instrument used. I sat on the review panel for a couple of years, and the records as well as are conclusions were confidential and remained in the custody of the Health Dept.
The purpose of the death review panel was to understand the deaths, and develop training for staff in all public services to reduce deaths which might be possible with proper interventions.
As noted, the majority of deaths at the "hands of another" were in three cities within our county.