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- noun Plural form of
homicide .
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Examples
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"With Cincinnati, a 40% decrease occurred in homicides, but this did not occur until after the 3rd call-in."
Chicago Gang Violence: Police Chief Jody Weis Follows Through On Controversial Strategy Will Guzzardi 2010
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The suggestion that even the finest, most competent, fully-staffed, and best-funded law enforcement agency — a description inapplicable, at least in part, to police forces in the relevant metropolitan areas — can, given the practical limitations of ATF tracing and investigatory legwork, achieve something close to a perfect record establishing full chains of possession of guns turned up in the smaller number of gun homicides, is completely preposterous.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons) 2010
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Anthony Ambrose, chief of detectives in the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, whose office co-investigates all Newark homicides is skeptical a monitor will help bring down crime, especially the type of murders that occurred over the summer.
Newark's Top Cop Faces Hurdles Sean Gardiner 2010
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"With Cincinnati, a 40% decrease occurred in homicides, but this did not occur until after the 3rd call-in."
Chicago Gang Violence: Police Chief Jody Weis Follows Through On Controversial Strategy Will Guzzardi 2010
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One big reason our life expectancy lags is that Americans have an unusual tendency to perish in homicides or accidents.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The US Has The Greatest Health Care in the World 2009
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Then, let's start suing the car manufacturers, since cars are involved in homicides and other crimes, every day.
Because American Education Isn't Having Enough Problems archmage 2008
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The deaths of the mother and child were classified as homicides.
The Seattle Times 2011
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A human rights researcher said Friday that any investigation into abuse of terror war prisoners should focus on what he called the Bush administration's "homicides" - prisoners who died while being subjected to torture ....
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To call Prohibition a “success,” you’d have to ignore the precipitous rise in homicides and other violent crime during the period; the rise in hospitalizations due to alcohol poisoning; the number of people blinded or killed by drinking toxic, black-market gin; the corrupting influence of Prohibition on government officials, from beat cops to the halls of Congress to Harding’s attorney general; and the corresponding erosion of the rule of law.
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I’ll just rest assured the 12-part Washington Post investigative series for each and every one of the other 478 unsolved homicides is in the planning stages.
Unsolved Mysteries in the District « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008
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