#2279: Comparative crime statistics: Colon adds

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From: Colon, Yves (Miami) <YColon@herald.com>

Max:
In FY 99, the INS deported 258 criminal felons and 105 non criminals to
Haiti.
Yves

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Robert Corbett [SMTP:bcorbett@netcom.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, February 10, 2000 12:34 PM
> To:	Haiti mailing list
> Subject:	#2252:  Comparative crime statistics: Haiti vs. Jamaica
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> From: Max Blanchet <MaxBlanchet@worldnet.att.net>
> 
> CANA just reported that 65 murders were
> 
> registered in Jamaica in the first 35 days of the
> 
> year. Projecting a bit (quite a bit!), this would
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> translate into 680 murders for the year 2000, or
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> about 26 per 100,000 inhabitants per year.
> 
> In Haiti the murder rate is about 10 per week, or
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> about 6.5 murders per 100,000 per year.
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> Or roughly, one fourth the Jamaican rate!
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> Furthermore, CANA reported that 1533 felons of
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> Jamaican nationality were deported by the US to
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> Jamaica last year.
> 
> Doe anyone know the corresponding figure for Haiti?
>