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Washington Post publishes dataset of 52,000 criminal homicides

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$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/washingtonpost/data-homici... | grep 'Closed by arrest' | wc -l

25667

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/washingtonpost/data-homici... | grep -v 'Closed by arrest' | wc -l

26506

Wow that's depressing. All possible outcomes via

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/washingtonpost/data-homici... | cut -f 12 -d ',' | sort | uniq -c

          1 Closed by arrest
      25673 Closed by arrest
       2922 Closed without arrest
          1 disposition
      23583 Open/No arrest

Pretty sure that 'Closed by arrest' also regularly results in a 'Not guilty' down the pipeline, so the 'real' number is probably much lower.

It's Closed without arrest and Open/No Arrest that are most concerning. Closed by arrest indicates effort was probably spent during an investigation, the bare minimum assumption. An assumption that can not be made about the 26,505 Closed without arrest and Open/No Arrest murders.

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