Onward Allusion
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I didn't want to hijack someone else's thread, but I feel that some of you need to understand that FBI Crime Statistics are gathered from a sampling of cities across our country. Some of these cities, especially large ones, manipulate their crime data for one reason or another. Some of it is due to Federal funding, some of it due to tourism dollars, property values, votes...etc...etc... It really comes down to power and money. We are not the only ones playing with the numbers. Included is an article from the UK on the same type of shenanigans.
Why am I posting this you might ask? This is a section on Strategies.....etc, right? Well...plan your strategy with your eyes wide open instead of believing everything the mass media feeds you. If you really think the world is such a safe place, then don't carry. Don't sleep with a nightstand gun. Don't own a gun for protection.
As an aside, if one carefully analyzes the FBI numbers, one will see that crime in smaller cities actually has increased. Why? Budget cuts due to gigantic drops in property taxes as a result of housing...
So...plan accordingly...
Investigative Report on Chicago's reclassified crimes
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/
LAPD reclassify crimes
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-crimestats-lapd-20140810-story.html#page=1
Law Journal Publication - authored by Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Law
http://blogs.law.uiowa.edu/ilr/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/A5_Yung.pdf
Trade/Professional publication questioning integrity of crime statistics.
http://www.policemag.com/channel/pa.../what-s-really-going-on-with-crime-rates.aspx
The overall decline follows a national trend that is 10 years in the making, says Tod Burke, a criminologist at Radford University in Radford, Va. “The trend is downward. This is all good news,” he says. <SNIP> “It’s a snapshot and we should take it as just that,” Burke says. Besides not including every city in the US, one disadvantage is that some municipalities may, intentionally or not, have different reporting methods for classifying certain crimes.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justic...-crime-in-2013-why-the-rate-continues-to-fall
Investigative Report from the UK and their crime reporting/classification
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ddling-crime-statistics-england-wales-figures
Why am I posting this you might ask? This is a section on Strategies.....etc, right? Well...plan your strategy with your eyes wide open instead of believing everything the mass media feeds you. If you really think the world is such a safe place, then don't carry. Don't sleep with a nightstand gun. Don't own a gun for protection.
As an aside, if one carefully analyzes the FBI numbers, one will see that crime in smaller cities actually has increased. Why? Budget cuts due to gigantic drops in property taxes as a result of housing...
So...plan accordingly...
Investigative Report on Chicago's reclassified crimes
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/
LAPD reclassify crimes
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-crimestats-lapd-20140810-story.html#page=1
Law Journal Publication - authored by Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Law
http://blogs.law.uiowa.edu/ilr/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/A5_Yung.pdf
Trade/Professional publication questioning integrity of crime statistics.
http://www.policemag.com/channel/pa.../what-s-really-going-on-with-crime-rates.aspx
The overall decline follows a national trend that is 10 years in the making, says Tod Burke, a criminologist at Radford University in Radford, Va. “The trend is downward. This is all good news,” he says. <SNIP> “It’s a snapshot and we should take it as just that,” Burke says. Besides not including every city in the US, one disadvantage is that some municipalities may, intentionally or not, have different reporting methods for classifying certain crimes.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justic...-crime-in-2013-why-the-rate-continues-to-fall
Investigative Report from the UK and their crime reporting/classification
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ddling-crime-statistics-england-wales-figures
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