Sentences with phrase «homicides by»

(FORT BRAGG, N.C.)-- A new report by Action for Children North Carolina finds that between 2001 and 2010 there were 251 homicides by parent / caregiver (HPC) of children from birth through ten years of age in North Carolina.

Charles Mirsky, a junior at Spanish River High School, cited a National Academy of Sciences study that found waiting periods reduced gun homicides by 17 percent.

Since Chicago's RedEye Web site began tracking homicides by neighborhood in 2007, Hancock's West Elsdon community has seen six murders.

Speaking at a press event in Albany, and joined by State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Mr. Cuomo cited the failure of the two houses the State Legislature to come to an agreement on the handling of law enforcement homicides by the end of the legislative session, which was supposed to have been last Wednesday.

«The reduction in the number of homicides by people affected by mental illness is welcome news.

With law enforcement officials aggressively pursuing gang members on Long Island after a recent spate of homicides by the transnational gang MS - 13, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a class - action lawsuit on Friday that federal authorities had gone too far.

Most disturbing is a 20 % increase in homicides by gun, accompanied by claims that overall shootings are down.

A lawsuit sprung from her death, which led to Michel's parents and the two priests in charge of her exorcism being found guilty of homicide by negligence.

A Kane County coroner's jury ruled last month that the death of Howard Morris, 58, was a homicide by negligence.

The measures, unveiled at a news conference on Tuesday, include the enactment of «Laree's Law» which would create the crime of homicide by sale of opiate controlled substance.

The Green Party candidates also said they stood with community residents in calling for justice for Eric Garner, whose death was ruled a homicide by the coroner.

Given the political and media pressure that can follow a public tragedy such as a homicide by an ex-psychiatric patient, it may be the case that in many instances people are being discharged on CTOs not for their own benefit but for that of the professionals — to cover their backs in the case of something going wrong.

In the letter, the lawmakers express frustration with what they see as a lack of progress from Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan's office in pursuing the case, which has been ruled a homicide by the New York City medical examiner's office.

«The media often exaggerates the likelihood of homicide by a person with schizophrenia, when it is in fact very rare.

The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide by 500 percent, independent of other risk factors for homicide, according to an American Journal of Public Health report.

While Garner's death was ruled a homicide by the Staten Island Medical Examiner's office, a subsequent grand jury declined to indict the officer on criminal charges.

The medical examiner later ruled Garner's death a homicide by compression of the neck.

The civil rights activist has served as a spokesman for the family of Garner — a 43 - year - old Staten Island man whose chokehold death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner following a July 18 attempt to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes — and is also heavily involved in the case of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Mo..

The medical examiner later ruled his death a homicide by chokehold.

«Unjustified homicide by police should be added to the long list of the public health consequences of societal racism.»

Previous studies have only examined homicide by all firearms.

In 2003, the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Regina McKnight, an African American woman who was convicted at the age of twenty - two for committing «homicide by child abuse.»

Homicide is the killing of a human being by the act, procurement, or omission of another, death occurring at any time, and is either (1) murder, (2) homicide by abuse, (3) manslaughter, (4) excusable homicide, or (5) justifiable homicide.

While the primary focus is often the threat posed to the patient, preventing future crimes such as vehicular homicide by an infirm person trying to drive themselves home is also a consideration.

FL Assisted in office operations, assisted survivors of homicide by court support.

Not exact matches

The Swiss have often been touted by the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a standout example of a country with little gun control and a homicide rate near zero.

«We do not believe that Freddie Gray killed himself,» one of the prosecutors said, noting that they stand by the finding that his death was a homicide.

According to a 2005 study of criminal patterns by Statistics Canada, for example, inflation rates influence the levels of financially motivated crimes such as break - ins and car thefts, while increases in unemployment correlate with higher homicide rates.

Homicides there are up 400 % so far this year, underscored by the discovery of 14 bodies in a mass grave in June.

For example, after he was widely condemned for retweeting a graphic of homicide data delineated by race, FactCheck.org found that «almost every figure in the graphic is wrong.»

JUST IN: Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev and man killed by FBI in Orlando responsible for 2011 triple homicide, sources say — NBC News (@NBCNews) May 22, 2013

But what questions have been researched by private institutions like the Harvard Injury Control Research Center show a clear connection between gun ownership, gun availability, homicides, and violent death.

By the end of 2015, the homicide rate in Guerrero reached 56.5 per 100,000 residents, which was four times the national average of 14.07 killings per 100,000 people, according to state - level data gathered by the Mexican governmenBy the end of 2015, the homicide rate in Guerrero reached 56.5 per 100,000 residents, which was four times the national average of 14.07 killings per 100,000 people, according to state - level data gathered by the Mexican governmenby the Mexican government.

Figures released by the Mexican government showed there were 336 homicides in the city during the first five months of 2015 — a 63 % increase over the same period in 2014.

Acapulco's reported homicide rate of 104.73 per 100,000 residents in 2015 made it the fourth - most - violent city in the world, according to a report released earlier this year by a Mexican think tank.

Ibragim Todashev, 27, was shot by the FBI in Orlando, Florida a week ago after he allegedly stabbed an agent during questioning on his possible involvement with Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a triple homicide that took place before the Boston attacks.

By comparison, New Orleans had a rate of about 39 homicides per 100,000 people last year and St. Louis had 50.

The US has nearly six times the gun homicide rate of Canada, more than seven times that of Sweden, and nearly 16 times that of Germany, according to United Nations data compiled by the Guardian.

It's difficult to know for sure how much of the drop in homicides and suicides was caused specifically by the gun buyback program.

The result: Australia's firearm homicide rate dropped by about 42 percent in the seven years after the law passed, and its firearm suicide rate fell by 57 percent, according to a review of the evidence by Harvard researchers.

It's difficult to know for sure how much of the drop in homicides and suicides was caused specifically by the gun buyback program and other legal changes.

It's difficult to separate these changes from long - term trends (especially since gun homicides have generally been on the decline for decades now), but a review of the evidence by RAND linked milder gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths — and that means these measures likely saved lives.

In 2013, our gun - related deaths included 21,175 suicides, 11,208 homicides and 505 deaths caused by accidental discharge.

According to an analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality, a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to face a firearm homicide.

It has, by far, the highest incidence of firearm - related homicides and suicides.

Gao, Chen and two different suspects had been later apprehended by the police, with the previous two charged with tried homicide.

Addressing MM's comment (11 June), to judge the quality of Islam on counting the number of american killed by muslim versus the percent of americans killed by drunk drivers or random homicides is bordering the ludicrous.

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

I've learned a ton of lessons about that by living in a neighborhood that has all kinds of reasons to hope, but also really struggles with an epidemic of violence, averaging about one homicide a day.

Most homicides are committed not by strangers, but by young people who lash out at friends or family.