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| Criminologist Says Mass Murder In U.S. Is Declining |
| By wfpl.org |
| Published: 09/25/2013 |
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Criminologist Grant Duwe has researched mass killings in the U.S. and found some surprising statistics. “Mass murder rates and mass public shootings have been on the decline,” Duwe told Here & Now. “But what we did see was an especially bad year for mass public shootings [in 2012]…. The number of victims who were killed and wounded was greater than in any previous year in U.S. history.” Duwe found that 0.2 percent of all homicides that occur in the United States are mass murders, and of those mass murders, 10 percent are mass public killings, such as those in Aurora, Newtown and the Washington Navy Yard. Read More. |
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