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New York, NY - Benefits of All This Rain, Fewer Murders
Jul 03, 2009 at 09:50 AMNew York, NY - An analysis by The New York Times of rainfall and homicides for the last six years shows that when it rains substantially in the summertime, there are fewer homicides. When there was no precipitation, there was an average of 17 homicides every 10 days. But when there was an inch or more of rain, the average dropped to 14. The gap is even wider when looking just at Saturdays in...
