Notice the violent copy shows AmeriKan TV spoon-feeds its populace never show corrupt and incompetent experts?
"Violent crime declined 5.3 percent last year, the third straight annual fall, the FBI reported yesterday.
Of course. government violence against the people continued unabated.
The drop was accompanied by a 4.6 percent drop in property crime, marking the seventh consecutive year that nonviolent crime has dropped.
When Americans begin dismantling some banks that will change.
The figures challenge theories among some criminal analysts that crime tends to rise in times of uncertain economies....
I'm not surprised another government theory is kaput. 9/11, Iraq, global warming, and the list goes on and on and on and on.
Did this government ever tell the truth?
WASHINGTON — The government’s most comprehensive crime survey indicates that violent and property crimes continued to decrease last year even as the nation’s economy slumped, confirming an earlier FBI report.
Of course, they are NOT COUNTING the BANK and CORPORATE LOOTING!
If you COUNT THAT then RECORDS WERE BROKEN!
The WHOLE MORTGAGE SECURITIES MESS, folks!
All 45 TRILLION DOLLARS of it!
The National Crime Victimization study, released yesterday by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, showed violent and property crime last year reached the lowest level recorded in the survey, first published in 1973....
Is it the pharmaceutical drugs in the water, America?
Or has a significant part of the populace been effectively zoned out over the last 15 or so years?
Professor Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz School of Public Policy, a specialist on crime trends, said the data on crime victims bolster the FBI’s report, which seemed to buck historical trends of higher crime rates during periods of economic distress.
We are in those times, yeah.
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