Doomzie myth "crime proof of moral decay". FACT U.S. Crime Rates Fall to historic lows.

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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000827/ts/crime_decline_dc_1.html Yahoo TimeStamp: 967409353 -->Sunday August 27 4:49 PM ET
U.S. Crime Rates Fall to Historic Low

By Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Violent crime in the United States dropped last year to the lowest level since the government began keeping records 27 years ago, a development President Clinton hailed on Sunday as evidence the administration's anti-crime strategy was working.

The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, in an annual report released on Sunday, said the total number of non-lethal violent crimes -- such as rape, robbery and assault -- fell by more than 10 percent in 1999, a record drop.

An estimated 28.8 million violent and property crimes occurred during the year, compared with 44 million in 1973 when the Bureau of Justice Statistics first began producing its annual National Crime Victimization Survey.



-- cpr (buytexas@swbell.net), August 28, 2000

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Too bad Jethro gets to claim credit for this but he seems to differ from the Lovely Ms. Janet :

``This news is further proof that the Clinton-Gore administration's anti-crime strategy of more police on our streets and fewer guns in the wrong hands has helped create the safest America in a generation,'' Clinton said in a statement.

The president used the release of the survey to press Congress to approve funding for administration proposals that would put an additional 50,000 community police officers on the street, hire 1,000 new federal, state and local prosecutors and recruit 500 new firearms agents.

Attorney General Janet Reno echoed Clinton's remarks, attributing the drop in crime to an increased number of police on the streets, tougher sentences for violent offenders and unprecedented cooperative efforts between local, state and national law enforcement officers.

``While these numbers are heartening,'' she added, ``there is a great deal more work to be done. Every crime that we can prevent is one less victim. We must remain vigilant in our efforts to continue to reduce crime and make our streets and communities as safe as they can possibly be.''



-- cpr (buytexas@swbell.net), August 28, 2000.

so you believe as gospel-everything they tell you--i thought you we're mr. intellectual!!--they wouldn't-->lie ,oh no never!!

-- 3d (dogs@zianet.com), August 28, 2000.

It's amazing what having the lowest unemployment in 30 years does to the crime rate.

-- More (jobs@less.crime), August 28, 2000.

WHY, exactly would they LIE? Aside from Jethro's habit of such things that is. That they would dare try to take credit for something that has a lot to do with POLICE and Volunteer Neighborhood watches across the nation is only "politics". We "know" crime is down and the rate has been going down in DFW but that has a lot to do with those two reasons I gave.

SO......why...would they "lie"?

You can do some work and find out that in good times, crime in general decreases. Its almost an argument for Karl Marx and certainly for Les Miserables/Jean ValJean.

Violent crime is more problemattic since it is *drug related* and drug use is increasing whether it he hard drugs or the so-called recreational drugs (no such thing). Only the decrease in alcoholic beverage and down scaling to wine and even bottle water could be examined as one factor in the decline in VIOLENT crime. Toss in more women taking kick boxing for another factor.

HINT. J. Edgar Crossdresser was forever going before Congress with statistics showing that the FBI was needed because crime increase XX% each year no matter how super the FBI was (they just needed more money to be more super). He got budgets approved rubber stamp style.

The above culd lead to a decrease in funding for the Police (something NO BODY like myself would want).

-- cpr (buytexas@swbell.net), August 28, 2000.


"DOOMZIE MYTH" ?????

Why does everything with you always seem to be a doomzie myth? I have heard no such evidence.

I think you have some kind of severe paranoid obsession that "doomers" are coming to get you.

-- cpr (doomers@coming.to.take.me.away), August 28, 2000.



I didn't post that last one, must have been my schizo alter ego, who sometimes tries to bring me back to reality.

-- cpr (buytexas@swbell.net), August 28, 2000.

Here's a few of the "Doomzie's mentality" from something HERR Duct Tape copied:

Heavenly Father, We come before you today to ask your forgiveness and seek your direction and guidance. We know your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good," but that's exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and have inverted our values. We confess that...

We have ridiculed the absolute truth of your Word and called it moral pluralism.

We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism.

We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.

We have rejected the needy and called it preservation.

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.

We have killed our unborn and called it a choice.

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building esteem.

We have abused power and called it political savvy.

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography called it freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.



-- Doomzies-Be-Them (DoomzieDeBunking@TB2000uNCola.com), August 28, 2000.

I still don't see how any of that has anything to do with "doomsies". It sounds more like the history of the Republican Party and the NWO.

You are hopelessly deluded, Creeper.

-- (cpr.has.irreperable@brain.damage), August 28, 2000.


Nope, sounds more like democrats to moi.

-- (vote@forwho.when), August 28, 2000.

We have ridiculed the absolute truth of your Word and called it moral pluralism.... Republican!

We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism.... Neither one party or the other

We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.... Most would say Democrat, because Republicans stay in the closet about their "perversions"

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery... Republican!

We have rejected the needy and called it preservation... Republican!

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare... this one is really a Republican problem, but it should read... We have put millions out of work, then called them lazy, then blamed their welfare on the Democrats.

We have killed our unborn and called it a choice... Republican!

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable... Republican!

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building esteem... Republican!

We have abused power and called it political savvy... Republican!... Republican!

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition...most definitely, Republican!

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography called it freedom of expression... entrepreneurs could be from either party, but most likely.. Republican!

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Judging by the way they abuse the law and their fellow man, this award should go to the .. Republicans!

-- (greedy@republicans.suck), August 28, 2000.



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-- ET (bneville@zebra.net), August 29, 2000.

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