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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2653892" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2017/02/12/boston-shootings/" target="_blank">Boston Is a Shooters’ Paradise</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Boston Is a Shooters’ Paradise</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>More than 96 percent of gunmen involved in non-fatal shootings are never arrested in Boston.</strong></span></p><p></p><p>During a six-month investigation, <em>Boston</em> obtained police records through a public information request and examined 618 shootings over 994 days, from the start of 2014 through September 20, 2016. The results were staggering: During that time frame, Boston police had arrested fewer than 4 percent of gunmen involved in non-fatal shootings.</p><p></p><p>Not that the BPD is doing such a great job of locking up murderers, either: During the same time period, police made arrests in barely 15 percent of fatal shootings. Since only about one in seven shooting victims dies in Boston, that brings the total arrest rate for shootings over the past two and a half years to almost 6 percent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2653892, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2017/02/12/boston-shootings/"]Boston Is a Shooters’ Paradise[/URL] [SIZE=6][B]Boston Is a Shooters’ Paradise[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][B]More than 96 percent of gunmen involved in non-fatal shootings are never arrested in Boston.[/B][/SIZE] During a six-month investigation, [I]Boston[/I] obtained police records through a public information request and examined 618 shootings over 994 days, from the start of 2014 through September 20, 2016. The results were staggering: During that time frame, Boston police had arrested fewer than 4 percent of gunmen involved in non-fatal shootings. Not that the BPD is doing such a great job of locking up murderers, either: During the same time period, police made arrests in barely 15 percent of fatal shootings. Since only about one in seven shooting victims dies in Boston, that brings the total arrest rate for shootings over the past two and a half years to almost 6 percent. [/QUOTE]
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