European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. October 21.1988 the stars and stripes killings by of police Down study shows big crop Over 15-year period Washington apr killings by police Are Down by half in 50 major . Cities compared with 15 years go and killings of police Are also sharply lower according to a study released sunday. Killings by police have fallen primarily because of More stringent police department policies on when to use weapons the study by University of Maryland criminology professor Lawrence Sher Man concludes. More than 353 civilians were killed in 1971 in 50 cities with populations of250,000 or More but Only 172 were killed in the same cities in 1984. Much of the decline was attributed to a substantial reduction in the killings of Blacks. The ratio of Blacks killed to Whites dropped from 7-Lo-l in 1971 to 2.5-to-l in 1978. The percentage of people arrested who were Black in Hose cities meanwhile changed very Little. The Best explanation Tor this massive change in police practice is probably the influence of progressive new police Lead in and their restrictive shooting poli cies Sherman said in a statement. Ii also reflects he increased political influence of Blacks and the financial in fluence of civil litigation he added massive protests in Many Black communities alter killings of unarmed youths posed a political problem for Many mayors and provided a continuing source of pressure for restraint in shoot Ings at Blacks the study said. The study also found that in the same so cities killings of police fell from 38 in 1975 to 13 in 1984. This report shows Hal if you can train police to be less violent less Vio new York police total fatal per 16 12 a 4 0 Chi Sou 1.000 shootings shootings Pottle i . 1981 82 63 b4 85 ago Tribuna graphic tee new York police department Chicago police total shootings fatal shootings per 1.000 Ponce 161 12 1981 82 63 84 85 Chicago to Lburn graphic source Chicago Polk department a i per 16 12 a 4 0 Clit Sou a. Police1 total shootings fam shootings 1,000 Ponce to 11 1 1 1961 82 83 84 85 ago Trot air or pc res to angelas Polios Othart Mutt Lence will be directed at the police Sai Danthony v. Bouza. Chief of the Minne Apolis police department and chairman of the crime control Institute a private Washington based research group thai published the study. Sherman is presi Dent of the Institute. Despite the reductions in police kill Ings homicides and violence in general did not decline in he 90 cities which accounted for 5 percent of All . Homicides in 1971 and 2.4 percent of Al homicides in 1984. The Survey which was conducted by Telephone and mail and was supplemented with official reports also found that cities vary widely in the Perc anlage of All homicides committed by police. From 1980 through 1984, for exam ple Jacksonville fla., police accounted for one of every 13 intentional deaths in that City. Honolulu police by contrast accounted for one of every 227. In new York police killings dropped from 314 for the years 1970-74 to 173 for the years 1980-84. Chicago dropped from 176 in 1970-74 10 88 in 1980-84. Philadelphia dropped from 96 to 38 in the same period and Detroit dropped from i59 to 44. An exception to the general pattern was los Angeles which showed Only a Small decline from 107 in 1970-74 to 96 in 1980-84. The change is significant however the Survey concluded when taking into account los Angeles enor Mous population growth during that period and a rapid growth in the City s Overall homicide Rale. Half of poll respondents want to Arm themselves Miami a nearly half of Dade county s Resi dents believe icy must Arm themselves to be Safe and three of out of live people believe they should have the right to shoot 10 kill anyone who Breaks into their Home according to a Miami Herald Survey published sunday. The poll also found thai most residents think authorities should not prosecute a businessman whose electric Booby trap killed a burglar inside his store. Dade is Florida s most populous county with about 1.6 million residents in its 1,955 Square Miles. Miami is the county seat and its major cities include Miami Beach Hialeah and Homestead. Eyed or someone in their families had been victims of robbery assault or burglary within the past five years. The poll asked if people should have the right shoot to kill a stranger who Breaks Inlo their Home even if they Don t know if the intruder is armed. Sixty three percent said they should have the right. The Survey with an error margin of plus or minus 5 percent also asked if area crime was so bad hat people should be armed. While 4fi percent said no 49 percent said yes. And 62 percent said keeping a gun at Home for Protection was not an Over reaction to crime. A burglar was found dead sept. 30 in a trap set by Prentice Rahsheed whose variety store in a blighted the poll also found that 57 percent of those sur neighbourhood had been robbed several limes. Since then five other Dade residents have shot or Beanie assailants. In All four alleged criminals have been killed and two injured. Rahsheed was charged with manslaughter and his Case is to so to the grand jury this week. The Herald s Telephone Survey last week of 3i6 randomly picked adults found Hal 73 percent of those familiar with the Case do not believe Rahsheed should stand trial. Forty nine percent of those polled said probation would do the right sentence if Rahsheed is convicted 7 percent said he deserved no punishment 13 percent thought jail Lime was appropriate 28 percent said they did t know and 3 percent refused to answer the ques Tion. Tattooed woman still a mystery one month later olymp1a, Wash Cap More than a month alter she was hit by a car and abandoned by her motorcycle compan Ion a woman remains hospitalized in a coma and unidentified nurses at so Peter Hospital speak to her. And the chaplain visits even though they dont know if the can hear them. The Hospital has never had a Jane Doe Csc like this. Occasionally an unidentified patient i treated there but they usually a identified within hours said social worker Suzanne Woodsum. Woodram old Hospital workers have informally adopted her.  20s. She has two tattoos. On her right in Quidit Blade is a red Rose and a Green  with the word is vow Stii on her left am u b Star made a silent it i rough and amateurish. Bank gunning to interest depositors offers loaded certificate Harrisburg. 111. A men Tion a gun in most Banks and tellers gel edgy Bui Bankers in this Southern Illi Nois town say they Are scaring up Mil lion of dollars in deposits by giving guns 13 interest. For three years first Bank & Trust of Harrisburg has been providing a three piece set of revolvers in lieu of interest on special certificates of de posit. Recently it switched to a two gun set of automatic weapons. It was daring for the Bank to do this said advertising executive David eng land of Carter Vule who Cane up with the idea. Bui it s paid off. It s brought hundreds of depositors from All Over. The promotion u aimed Al both cot lectors and investors and the Bank at tracts business by advertising the special edition Smith & Wesson guns in weapons oriented publications said Donald m. Medley Bank vice president. We decided that if we could gel Smith Wesson to make these gun Sand work this promotion with Pur Tittle Bank it would help us raise millions of dollars in new Revenue outside our particular geographical area which it has done be said Medley would not reveal How much the promotion has generated in deposits or divulge the Bank s assets citing securities and Exchange commission rules. But he said the Bank in this town of 10,400 people about 55 Miles South West of Evansville ind had received deposits from across the country. Give away the Bank keeps a licensed gun dealer on its staff for the transactions we came up with a three gun set in a presentation Case a .44 magnum a .22-caliber and a .357 magnum eng land said hundreds of Seti went out and we be just now gone to a two gun set a .45-Cali Ber and b 9-Miluraclcr  depositors can collect the guns by keeping their Money in the Bank from six months to 10 Yean depending on the size of the Deposit. For example a fix month certificate of Deposit would require a $35,850 de posit but e 10-year cd Only 12,000. The effective yield the Cost of the guns i equivalent in value to interest England said