Death by the Numbers, 1948

Posted on April 27, 2009 by lmharnisch
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1948: Knives are almost as popular as guns as a murder weapon.

On Sunday, I was part of a Festival of Books panel on California crime, and the final question dealt with gun control. I said I was surprised that weapons other than guns figured so prominently in the historical record. Here's a breakdown from the 1948 LAPD statistical report. The LAPD has kept extensive crime statistics for decades. There's an untold story in all those numbers for whoever transfers the data to spreadsheets and analyses it. 

Homicide Statistics, 1948

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