On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:00:43 -0400, NoBody wrote:

> "Two of the federal government’s methods of measuring crime tell two
> different stories, complicating recent claims from the media and
> President Joe Biden that crime is declining.
>
> Numerous media outlets have, in recent months, run headlines
> suggesting that crime is declining across the country. The statistics
> they’re citing, however, don’t tell the entire story.
>
> The federal government has two ways of measuring crime, the Bureau of
> Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the
> Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)
> program. The former asks around 240,000 Americans if they’ve been the
> victim of a crime in the last year whereas the latter relies on crimes
> reported to police in a given year and shared with the bureau.
>
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> Grid, Experts Say The Opposite
>
> A gap has emerged between the two measures. More people are telling
> the Bureau of Justice Statistics that they’ve been victimized, but the
> FBI is reporting fewer crimes.
>
> The UCR reported that violent crime fell by 2% between 2021 and 2022,
> according to the Council on Criminal Justice. By contrast, the NCVS
> found that the number of people saying they were the victims of
> violent crimes increased by 42.4% between 2021 and 2022, rising from
> 16.5 victimizations per 1000 people to 23.5 victimizations per 1000."
>
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/media-outlets-are-misrepresenting-crime-stats-to-biden-s-benefit/ar-AA1nIB5G?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=ded8cc77642d4389fdd4a1a4d0041586&ei=86
>
>
> Figures lie and liars figure.

Without resort to homicide crime fighting is pretty much limited to
the quality of public education with which the commons are enfranchised.

Dhu (post scriptorum: Rush's Dead ;-)

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