On 23/06/2011 04:36 PM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> Apparently a 2008 estimate suggests that 11.15 million murders are
>> committed per year in the USA. (Emphasis *estimate*.)
>
>    I would like to see some credible references to that. 11 million people
> is like nuking New York and a good chunk of its surroundings (New York
> has a population of something like 8 million). Each year.

My source is here:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=murder

No indication of where *their* source is, nor what the confidence 
intervals on that figure is. (It *is* only an estimate, after all...) I 
note that this is the number of *crimes*, not actually the number of 
people murdered. (I'm not sure how these relate; is killing 7 people 
counted as 1 crime or 7 crimes? Can killing a single person be several 
crimes at once?)

>    Given that the US has a population of about 300 million, that kind of
> murder rate would make it deserted in about 27 years.

Disregarding the birth rate, I presume?

I agree though, it does sound a tad large just for the USA...

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