[Gunstar1]

All are valid counters to the Times and VPC, but the biggest slight of hand has been missed thus far.

Always, always, always look up what the definition of the terms being used is, from the same place the data comes from.

In this case, justified homicide does not include what you think it does.

 

[Gunstar1]

Guessing, but only when a killing went all they way through the court system for verdict, not when police decline to refer.

Oh no, FAR more narrow than that.

UCR guidelines for justifiable homicide...
https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/handbook/ucrhandbook04.pdf
page 17

The killing of a felon, during the commission of a felony, by a private citizen.
...
Justifiable homicide, by definition, occurs in conjunction with other offenses. Therefore, the crime being committed when the justifiable homicide took place must be reported as a separate offense. Reporting agencies should take care to ensure that they do not classify a killing as justifiable or excusable solely on the claims of self-defense or on the action of a coroner, prosecutor, grand jury, or court.

Example of justifiable:

When a gunman entered a store and attempted to rob the proprietor, the storekeeper shot and killed the felon.

Example of what is not justifiable:

While playing cards, two men got into an argument. The first man attacked the second with a broken bottle. The second man pulled a gun and killed his attacker. The police arrested the shooter; he claimed self-defense.

If the person wasn't committing a separate felony when he was shot, it does not count as justifiable. If it was not obvious during the preliminary investigation of what was going on, it is not justifiable. The police cannot take into account what the coroner, prosecutor, grand jury, or court decides when assigning a homicide as justifiable.

So the anti's compare the narrow definition of justified homicide to criminal homicide and make a stink of it when "ciminal" homicide includes cases in which the homicide was legally justified but did not meet the narrow definition for reporting as justifiable.