On Feb. 13, prosecutors gave opening statements in the trial of seven men who belong to a Midwest militia called Hutaree. The defendants are accused of conspiring to someday ambush and kill a police officer, then attack the funeral procession with explosives, according to an article in the Associated Press.
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Using Statistics to Keep an Investigation Focused
By Tim Hardiman – Nearly 15, 000 people were murdered in the United States in 2007. Almost 12,000 men and over 3,000 women according to the FBI’s report “Crime in the United States”. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports that the majority of these victims knew their killers. Only 29 percent of men are estimated to have been killed by strangers. The figure for women is even more striking: nearly 90 percent of women were murdered by someone they knew. Only 10 percent were killed by people they had never met.
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