In article , "Ed Huntress" wrote:

"Rex" wrote in message
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Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Dec 29, 3:50 pm, " wrote:
On Dec 29, 8:14 pm, Too_Many_Tools wrote:

Violent crime is up...not down.
TMT
Can you post a web site that supports this. "Freakanomics" a book
says violent crime is down. This web site also says violent crime is
down.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm

Dan

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...24-crime_N.htm

Sure I'll take a USA Today story over an official government document.

Ah, Rex, the USA Today story quotes current FBI/DOJ figures. The link to the
"government document" is to data that's two years old.

For the current "government document," look he

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/offe...ime/index.html

There is a two-year uptick in violent crime. Whether that's a trend or a
blip remains to be seen.

Even that doesn't present a completely accurate picture, though, because it
shows absolute numbers of events, not rates. The 2006 rate is slightly less
than the 2003 rate, and noticeably less than the 2002 rate, even though the
absolute numbers are nearly the same -- because the population increased by
almost eleven million people during that period.

(Population figures from http://www.census.gov/popest/states/NST-ann-est.html)

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.