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To: tejek who wrote (327635)	2/28/2007 12:11:09 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586839

Because I want Bush gone. I know you want Bush gone, but that doesn't mean every issue is about Bush. My mistake......it didn't start increasing until 2004 and then It took a big jump in 2005: It increased moderately in 2005. And the 2005 level was still lower than any year under Clinton. I point to statistics to back up my case, you point to spin. You start with a headline that asserts the jump was big when it wasn't. marking the largest annual increase in crime in the United States since 1991 Which isn't very meaningful because there haven't been many increases since 1991. Actually its the only increase since 1991. Also the date is rather artificially chosen every year from 88 until 91, had a larger increase than 2005, so the period obviously is chosen to exclude these increases. There is at least one accurate comment in the article you quote. "Police in some cities said crime increases reflected unusually low numbers in 2004, rather than unusually high numbers in 2005." Since the 2005 figure is lower than the 2003 figure, or the figure for any other year, other than 2004, since 1986 (I'd compare to older figures but the data only goes back to 1986), that's a reasonable statement.