Does that turn it into a numbers game though?
"Homicides decreasing" is nice, but is the same true for the amount of people dying?
To put it simply, imagine if there was one homicide a day for the year of 2002. One person died each time for a total of 356 deaths. Now imagine if "only" 100 homicides happened in 2016. But 10 people died each time. There were technically less homicides, but more people still died.
Or maybe I'm getting the legal definition of Homicide wrong? If killing multiple people in one instance all count as their own separate homicide and the end result is technically less people dying....
Though in the end, statistics only help so much. If there was a 1% chance of your child being killed, all the statistics in the world wouldn't matter to you if you were the one who got a knock on your door, being told your child passed away.
Removing emotion to an extent I'd important, but it cannot be removed entirely. Doing so goes against the very thing that makes us human.
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