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Title: Odds of Getting Shot
Post by: Kathyp on February 27, 2007, 07:14:10 pm: i can't vouch for the stats in this, but the conclusion was cute...and not a bad idea..... i heard a similar one about Philadelphia.

INTERESTING STATISTIC
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> Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S.
>involvement in Iraq, here's a sobering statistic:
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> There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq
>theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112
>deaths. That gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.
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> The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000
>persons for the same period.
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> That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and
>killed in the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq.
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> Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington
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Title: Re: Odds of Getting Shot
Post by: Understudy on February 27, 2007, 08:13:19 pm: You know I am shocked to find out that those statistics may be wrong.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/31/dc-safer-iraq/ (http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/31/dc-safer-iraq/)

Sincerely,
Brendhan
Title: Re: Odds of Getting Shot
Post by: Kathyp on February 27, 2007, 08:41:44 pm: can't argue the numbers without doing my own research, but your article is about deaths in iraq. my email is about troop deaths. little different.

my math skills suck. how about the Philadelphia murder rate? http://www.nbc10.com/news/6161126/detail.html.

seems like good odds of getting killed there to for the population number. http://philadelphia.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm

you can do the math for me :-)
Title: Re: Odds of Getting Shot
Post by: Understudy on February 27, 2007, 10:55:32 pm: There were about 152,000 US troops in Iraq as of early October 2005. As of mid-November 2006, there were approximately 152,000 US troops deployed to Iraq.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat.htm (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat.htm)

Pentagon officials say the new plan is aimed at adding manpower to improve security in the short term -- when troop numbers will increase from the current 130,000 to as many as 180,000
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/06/number_of_troops_in_iraq_to_expand/ (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/06/number_of_troops_in_iraq_to_expand/)

Between those two articles the average number is 141,000.
Current number of deaths in Iraq since war began (03/19/03) 3160
Percentage of Casulities .023 % (rounded up)
Casulities per 100,000 2300

Population in DC since 2003 is 554,126 (averaged number)
Current number of murders since 2003 811
Percentage of Casulities .0015% (rounded up)
Percentage per 100,000 150

The simple fact is as bad as the crime rate is in dc it isn't and has never been 80.6 per 100,000.

Sincerely,
Brendhan
Title: Re: Odds of Getting Shot
Post by: Jerrymac on February 27, 2007, 11:08:40 pm: I find it disturbing, appalling, disgusting, sickening, that this is in the humor section :-x :-\ :-X :(

Just messin with ya :-D
Title: Re: Odds of Getting Shot
Post by: Understudy on February 27, 2007, 11:11:20 pm: Jerrymac:

I had to scroll down for that punchline. That was great.

Sincerely,
Brendhan
Title: Re: Odds of Getting Shot
Post by: Kathyp on February 27, 2007, 11:12:58 pm: we need some kind of punishment emoticon on here :-\
Title: Re: Odds of Getting Shot
Post by: Robo on February 28, 2007, 11:05:15 am: Quote from: kathyp on February 27, 2007, 11:12:58 pm
we need some kind of punishment emoticon on here :-\

Here ya go, 2 choices for you.

:jail:

or

:fishhit:
Title: Re: Odds of Getting Shot
Post by: Kathyp on March 01, 2007, 12:46:09 pm: robo, those are great! i see we have them now! :-) :fishhit:
Title: Re: Odds of Getting Shot
Post by: buzzbeejr on March 01, 2007, 06:24:03 pm: I might actually do the fish one to my friend :fishhit:. but then i might get sent here :jail: