{"id":181264,"date":"2016-08-17T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/17\/factoid-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T23:13:00","slug":"factoid-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/17\/factoid-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Factoid of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/Pb3Am7ViYRoNG\/giphy.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/Pb3Am7ViYRoNG\/giphy.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>I always knew the people who you know are the ones most likely to kill you.<\/p>\n<p>I did not know <a href=\"https:\/\/granta.com\/violence-in-blue\/\">this<\/a>: (BTW, kickass discussion of statistics of incomplete data here)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Americans are afraid of many threats to their lives \u2013 serial killers,  crazed gunmen, gang bangers, and above all terrorists \u2013 but these  threats are surprisingly unlikely.<a href=\"https:\/\/granta.com\/violence-in-blue\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><\/a> Approximately three-quarters of all homicide victims in America are killed by someone they know.<a href=\"https:\/\/granta.com\/violence-in-blue\/#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\"><\/a>  And the real threat from strangers is quite different from what most  fear: one-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by  police.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our law enforcement system is broken.<\/p>\n<p>OK, that bit I knew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always knew the people who you know are the ones most likely to kill you. I did not know this: (BTW, kickass discussion of statistics of incomplete data here) Americans are afraid of many threats to their lives \u2013 serial killers, crazed gunmen, gang bangers, and above all terrorists \u2013 but these threats are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1041,1024,1058,992,1059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-society","category-sociology","category-statistics","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}