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To: tejek who wrote (142355)	2/5/2002 12:00:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1578731

violent crimes were dropping under the economic good times of the 90's....that trend has reversed in the past year as economic conditions have weakened. If it has reversed it is not by much. A year or so doesn't make for a reversal of the trend anyway unless it is a very big change in that year. The trend was down even during the last slowdown so I'm not sure that anything has changed in this one. It seems the trend it intact at least as far as the most recent available statistics. We should see national 2001 stats and some local 2002 stats within a year. ojp.usdoj.gov ojp.usdoj.gov sandag.cog.ca.us ojp.usdoj.gov detnews.com ojp.usdoj.gov ______ "Crime in Chicago Dips to a Nine-Year Low Index Crimes Decreased in 20 out of 25 Police Districts The Chicago Police Department today announced that crime in the city continues its nine year downward trend. Citywide, index crimes are down by a rate of 4.9 percent over 1999 totals. " ci.chi.il.us ___ "Crime Crime rate continues downward trend in ‘01" From December 2001 LA times article. ___ January 1, 2002 New York Region Crime Shows Biggest Drop in Five Years college3.nytimes.com ____ Violent Crime Continues to Drop Slight Decline in First Half of Year Extends Nine-Year Trend Tuesday, December 18, 2001; washingtonpost.com ____ "Crime in City Plummets Through First Six Months of 2001 Crime Down in 23 of City’s 25 Police Districts" ci.chi.il.us ________________________ In addition, I would be stupid to believe there is no correlation between the number of guns in a society and the level of gun violence but you believe what you want. Its stupid to believe that disarming law abiding citizens while leaving the criminals armed since they will ignore the laws would reduce gun violence but you can believe what you want. There is obviously a connection between the number of guns and gun violence but it is not a simple linear one. Of course if there was no guns there would be no gun violence but once the criminals have guns increasing the number of guns may decrease the amount of gun violence. Tim

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