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of violent crime has increased 371 percent since 1960 --- that's
* nine times faster than our population has grown. In the past 30 years, * homicides have nearly tripled; robberies and rapes each are up over 500 * percent; aggravated assaults have increased more than 600 percent." * * Crime is a white-hot public issue that has been shamelessly exploited by * cynical leaders for their own political and administrative advantage. Here * is how these callous manipulators have used the gut-level fears of the * American people for their own purposes. The rhetoric of crime in the * United States is in many ways more important than crime itself. [Most * of this STUNNING chapter not shown: buy the book!] * * Hard, consistent and detailed knowledge about crime has been gathered * by the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, part of the * Justice Department. Under this program, twice a year, 50,000 Americans * are asked dozens of detailed and probing questions about their experience * with crime. * * This procedure is considered highly reliable...and every year they publish * an authoritative annual report summarizing criminal victimization. * * Consider, for example, rape, robbery and felonious assault, the nation's * most widespread crimes of violence. These are terrifying events that * legitimately generate serious public concern about both personal safety * and the overall quality of life in the United States. * * In 1992, the most recent comparable year that is available from the * Census Bureau, has a startling comparison to twenty years before. * * Regarding rape, robbery and felonious assault: * * In 1992, 15. |
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