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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (359947)11/27/2007 3:37:36 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1574400
 
Tim, the American crime rate has not been small for a long long time. Sure it went down under Clinton but it was still high when he left office

It went down under Clinton, before Clinton, and after Clinton. Its still lower than it was for all of Clinton's time if office, and also lower than it was under Bush I or Reagan. And probably than it was under Carter but the FBI crime rate site didn't go back that far. The violent crime rate was lower in 2001 than it had been since the FBI series started. It was lower in 2002 than in 2001. Its lower in 2007 than it was in 2002, yes it is higher now than it was in more recent years but a modest increase after a long drop doesn't indicate that crime is suddenly a huge problem.

If you want to go back generations and say "it was lower than", maybe you will be right, but arguing that we have some massive new crime wave with unusually high rates of crime is ignoring reality.
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