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I will give you links to some rates on these death tolls, but I urge you to do your own research as well. The King report uses 2002 data for Washington, D.C., finding a violent casualty rate of 45.9 deaths per 100,000 people because the homicides in D.C were extremely high that year. Using the most recent 2004 data, the violent casualty rate in D.C. is 35.8 deaths per 100,000. There were 198 homicides total in D.C. for the entire year.  This is probably why Rstott pointed out that many of the deaths in D.C. are due to carelessness, AND homicides, not just homicides alone.  Almost half of the deaths in D.C. are do to carelessness.  Even if you count the large amount of deaths the homeless suffered when freezing to death in D.C. the total number of homicides in D.C. is much smaller than the estimated 80.6 per 1000 stated above.   King also said he came up with an annualized innocent Iraqi civilian death rate of only 27.51 per...
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