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To: TimF who wrote (327807)	3/4/2007 4:26:23 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1586876

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." Let's see how 2006 looks when its numbers come out. One of the reasons why crime was dropping under Clinton was because the population is aging. Another was growing prosperity. When a trend stops, usually there is something behind it. Was it an aberration, or the beginning of a new trend? The 2006 numbers will let us know better.