hate crimes weirdness

Thomas Waters twaters at panix.com
Sat Mar 4 09:05:27 PST 2000


At 04:35 AM 3/4/00 GMT, Jordan listed these statistics on motives of murder:


>1,457 During the commission of a felony
>2,209 Unknown
>2,437 Passion
> 108 Romantic triangle
> 1 Child killed by babysitter
> 83 Brawl due to influence of alcohol
> 73 Brawl due to influence of narcotics
> 121 Argument over money or property
> 2,051 Other arguments

What is the meaning of the categoru "Unknown"? Does it mean that a motive of passion has been eliminated? Or does it mean that investigators don't know if there was a motive of passion or not?

It makes all the difference, since this clearly shows more killings with motives of passion than killing with the other known motive.

Tom Thomas Waters twaters at panix.com Bronx, New York



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