Ed Huntress wrote:
"cavelamb himself" wrote in message
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RMDumse wrote:


On Oct 21, 4:47 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:


There's an inconvenient truth for ya', huh?


Or an convenient lie.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...s.37a0d0d.html

"Until this week, it seemed likely that Dallas would remain No. 1. But
the Police Department has discovered it hasn't been following FBI
guidelines, resulting in the overreporting of certain crimes.

"In some cases, the rules allow multiple crimes to be reported as a
single act. For example, 10 car break-ins committed by the same
burglar within a few minutes of one another count as one criminal act.
Dallas was reporting 10 crimes."

Or maybe not. It could be just NYC is better at covering up its
statistics than Dallas is. However, I know for a fact Dallas tries to
do the same, at least in one case I've already sighted.

Randy


Dunno where these numbers came from, so I'll offer up some more...

Dallas Crime stats:
http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/dpd/stat_decision.htm
http://dallas.areaconnect.com/crime1.htm


The statistics I've quoted, and to which the two newspaper articles in
question refer to, are the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), which are
well-defined an monitored by the FBI to a fairly good extent. They're
compiled from state reports. In recent years, a lot of progress has been
made in getting consistent and uniform reporting from the states, and
particularly from larger cities.


MISreporting statistics???
It's a real problem.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/HRWG/PDF/hrwg03.pdf


More **** cut.

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Ed Huntress


Who give a flying **** about Dallas? Why don't you take your over-blown
self-opinionated crap to a usenet group that actually ****ing cares?

This is a metalworking group and not some forum for blowhards like yourself
who have nothing better to do but have an opinion on everything!