On Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, The Times launched a new version of the Homicide Report. You have arrived at the old blog.
Readers can no longer post new comments on this site, but we encourage you to join the conversation on our new site. The updated Homicide Report features an interactive map and searchable database of the more than 2,600 homicides in L.A. County since January 2007, when Times' reporter Jill Leovy first started this blog with the goal of covering each one.
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-- Megan Garvey and Anthony Pesce
February 24, 2007 | 12:23
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Maybe. But the difference may not be much.
A Times examination of Los Angeles city homicides on the two dozen rainiest winter days between 2003 and 2005 found that homicides were only slightly less likely on rainy days. The analysis, which used data from the LAPD and the National Weather Service, showed that there were an average of 1.25 homicides per day in the city on rainiest winter days, compared to an average of 1.39 homicides per day overall during the three-year period.
