Ending the Year

HeyJackass.com has a post up explaining the end-of-year stats and how they change over the next few weeks:

• With mere hours left in 2024, we wanted to post our usual note to illustrate how the year-end totals are accounted for and how best to compare this year to years past.

  Past year-end totals reflected on this site account for resolved death investigations, found bodies, and late passings that can and will occur for many years after the clock strikes midnight on Jan 1st. We apply those incidents toward the time of occurrence, not the date of death. Other agencies, such as the CPD, choose to add those resolved death investigations, found bodies, and late passings to the year in which the death was recorded.

They list examples about how the year-end-totals climb, so what you see on the site isn't the actual totals for a while yet.

Currently, Chicago is at 608 (don't believe the Department stats - they've been lying about those longer than we spent on the job).

Reminder - For the Ghoul Pools, be sure you define what constitutes the winner before paying out - First RD Number pulled or First by Time of Death Declared by an actual Medical Professional.