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To: tejek who wrote (327797)	3/2/2007 11:28:56 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586866

2.5% is a moderate increase. More importantly the level for 2005 (and from preliminary reports for 2006 as well) is lower than every single year during the Clinton administration, so painting this as a crime wave or some sort of explosion of crime is ridiculous. And crime is not just lower than in the Clinton administration, its lower than before and after Clinton, with the exception of the unusually low year of 2004 for as far back as the data goes. Because the article gave percentages instead of actual numbers, you're calling that spin? The spin was the headline calling it a big jump. Also in the selection of the periods mentioned. They look back only to 91, when crime increased for several years before 91, also it looks like it only mentioned the categories that increased and not the categories that decreased in 2005. I can't bust on it too much for spinning, because at the end they do report - "Police in some cities said crime increases reflected unusually low numbers in 2004, rather than unusually high numbers in 2005."