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Crime
3:24 pm
Mon January 3, 2011

Report: Flint homicides spread like an epidemic

Demolished Buick City in Flint, Michigan
Credit blueskiesfalling / wikimedia commons
Flint broke a homocide record last year. The city has faced hard times since the decline of the auto industry. Here the remains of Buick City in Flint, Michigan.
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The Center for Homicide Research published a report on homicides in Flint. It concluded that Flint passed its previous record of 61 homicides (set in 1986) "in large part to a process of contagion."

In other words, once a homicide occurs, it can spark others, spreading like a disease.

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