Crime Statistic Changes By Presidential Administration

Mark Twain attributed one of his more famous quotes to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." I would counter: liars lie. They lie with words or they lie with statistics. Words and statistics can be loaded weapons, but they are,...

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Violent Crime in 2015. A Look At The FBI Uniform Crime Report

The 2015 Uniform Crime Report was released by the FBI this past week providing an extensive portrait of crimes throughout the United States. Since I've been analyzing where crime has been going down and where it has been going up in several recent posts, I thought I'd tackle the new information. Previously: The...

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Misheard Mysteries

And now for something in a lighter vein.I like wordplay. I don't know whether the following is a formal game, but I had the idea to take a title, maintain the sound of its syllables but change the spelling so that the same sounds gives another meaning.This follows the rules of pronunciation. For example,...

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Violent Crime Rates Under New York City Mayor Giuliani

My previous post detailed the drop in the violent crime and murder rates in New York City since their peak twenty-five years ago and showed that it led New York State in improving crime statistics. The differences were dramatic. In 1990, there were 2245 murders in New York City and 360 in the rest...

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Violent Crime Rates: New York City Versus New York State

As mentioned in my previous post, from its peak approximately 25 years ago to the most recent statistics, the rate of violent crimes in the United States has dropped by approximately 50%. The state of New York had a greater decrease (-65.2%) than any other state. I also noted that, in general, rural...

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The Shift in Violent Crime Rates.

Two years ago I ran across a statistic stating that murders in Washington, DC had declined by 87% from their peak in 1991. Having lived in DC during the eighties in what my landlord referred to as "an aggressively urban neighborhood," I found this intriguing and decided to look into whether it was a...

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