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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (487933)	11/6/2003 1:40:09 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

9-11 may have contributed to lower the rate of crime a little, but there has been a trend of lower crime for more than just 2001-2002. And the decrease of crime is DRAMATIC! And the trend continued despite a major economic slowdown that began in 2000 which resulted in increasing poverty - somewhat delinking the idea that increasing poverty must lead to increased crime. "The National Crime Victimization Survey reveals long-term declines in victimization to the lowest per capita rates in nearly 30 years Overall violent victimization and property crime rates in 2002 are the lowest recorded since the inception of the NCVS in 1973..." "...In 2002 the rate for rape was 0.4 per 1,000 persons age 12 or older, 60% of the 1993 rate. For the decade the rate for robbery was down 63%, falling to 2 per 1,000 in 2002. From 1993 to 2002 victimization by aggravated assault, associated with serious injury or weapons, declined 64% to 4 per 1,000. The rate of simple assault -- a crime that involves neither serious injury nor weapon -- fell 47%. The rate of violent crime dropped 21% from the period 1999-2000 to the period 2001-02." Department of Justice, August 2003