California homicides dwarf Iraq deaths

worldnetdaily ^ | December 2, 2005

[seastay]

Recently released crime statistics show the homicide rate in California is 265 percent higher than the death rate suffered by U.S. and British military personnel in Iraq.

According to the report "Crime in California 2004," compiled by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, there were 2,394 reported homicides in the Golden State last year. That compares with 905 deaths of coalition forces in Iraq, chiefly Americans and Brits, during the same time period.

A monthly average of 75 deaths of American and British forces has remained fairly constant over the last two years.

The peak for homicides in California was in 1993, when there were 4,095 reported.

Such comparisons have been made by defenders of the action in Iraq, who say the number of casualties for a war of this length are extraordinarily low.

Opponents of the war claim the lives of the 2,000 Americans who have died since the initial invasion have been lost in vain.

Opined Toula Foscolos in the French Le Magazine: "More than 2,000 Americans have left their lives [in Iraq], thanks to the conniving and self-serving ways of their dim-witted president."

[seastay]

In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) are against illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens. These numbers rival the war on terriosm statistics, but nobody not even the local news will even report it, yet we hear everyday about Iraq.

[Gordongekko909]

I'm surprised that we hear about US soldiers dying in Iraq, seeing as how it tends to make Muslims look bad. But then again, the MSM imputes those deaths to Bush, so it works out for them.

[Lurker]

Yea, kind of funny isn't it.

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[BikerTrash]

Nothing that more gun control wouldn't fix. </idiocy>

[Jigsaw John]

In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) are against illegal aliens.

But haven't you heard the good new? We are being successful at securing Iraqi borders!

[wickedpinto]

A Popular insurgency in California leads to hier death tolls.

[staytrue]

In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) are against illegal aliens.

That is actually a pretty low number. When a homicide is committed, you don't arrest because you don't know who it is, or you arrest someone because you do. For the most part, in a murder case, you can usually find the suspect unless they have fled the country which citizens rarely do, but illegals do often. Frankly, I'm surprise the statistic is not close to 100%

[bybybill]

When we are done using this to promote our hot issues, you got look at this with a certain amount of horror. Something is really wrong, sports fans.

[JLS]

Actuall while the number of homicides in CA were larger than the number of US deaths in Iraq, the RATE is not larger as the article says.

[Lesforlife]

That was my first thought when I read the article!!

Stunning news that ought to make every citizen
stand up and shout this from the roof tops!!!

[Lesforlife]

That was my first thought when I read the article!!

Stunning news that ought to make every citizen
stand up and shout this from the roof tops!!!

[PISANO]

Opponents of the war claim the lives of the 2,000 Americans who have died since the initial invasion have been lost in vain

It is baffling to me how anyone can attribute the death of any member of an ALL-VOLUNTEER military as being in VAIN.

This means the volunteer either did NOT know there were such a thing as WAR or that if there was a WAR he would be excluded from being a part of it.

Both excuses are beyond reasoning and enter the realm of fantasy.

[Rome2000]

Watch out when Mexicans and gang members figure out how to blow themselves up with Crack.

[JudgemAll]

... no, it is not surprising that illegal aliens would kill without impunity here...but let us not profile (sarc off)

[Bon mots]

It's a QUAGMIRE!
Let's pull out.

[ReignOfError]

Actuall while the number of homicides in CA were larger than the number of US deaths in Iraq, the RATE is not larger as the article says.

My thought exactly. You can count on WND to be sloppy. 2400 out of 33 million is not a higher rate than 905 out of 160,000. You'd think that even journalists must have taken a math course at some point.

[carumba]

Si, la raza wants to reannex old Mexico.

[babygene]

"My thought exactly."

I don't know if your intentionally being deceptive... But you are, none the less.

LA and other cities where these deaths occur do not have a population of 33 million.

[Smokin' Joe]

But our troops can shoot back.

[Beckwith]

Iraq is an active war zone.

California is not.

The comparison has value.