Sentence examples for murder ratio from inspiring English sources
As Canada's largest city, Toronto's 1.38 per capita ratio looks particularly impressive (way to not murder each other, guys) when compared to US cities such as Chicago (15.1 murder ratio) and even the relatively peaceful New York (3.9).
The prime minister has a bad habit of being glib and aloof, which is charming the first time you see it on the campaign hustings against Stephen "I Do Math Homework For Fun" Harper or when it's played on the news alongside Donald Trump's latest musings about America's ideal guns-to-child-murder ratio.
"In many cases, locals played a key role in the murders, probably by a ratio of 10 locals to every one German.
Between 1997 and 2006, the ratio of murders in Scarborough as compared to the rest of Toronto ranged from a low of 8.8% to a high of 32.2%.
The cities of 250,000 or more with the lowest murder rates in 2012 also had some of the lowest cop per civilian ratios -- #1 Plano, TX (cop per civilian ratio, ranked #514 out of a total 697 cities), #2 Lincoln, NE (cop per civilian ratio, #522 out of 697), #3 Henderson, NV (#510 out of 697), #4 Mesa, AZ (#292), Santa Ana, CA (#643) and Portland, OR (#355).
(The ratios are even worse for criminals: a person convicted of murder must perform at least twenty-five acts of "life-saving heroism" before he is forgiven).
By comparing the homicide rates for 2013 and 2014 and obtaining a month-to-month ratio between them, Rosenfeld concluded that there's no evidence that murders rose in the area as a result of what happened in Ferguson.
The ratio for 2012, per the Violence Policy Center, was one justifiable killing for every 32 murders, suicides or accidental deaths (the ratio increases to 38-1 over the five-year period ending in 2012).
