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To: RinConRon who wrote (372633)	7/12/2010 11:06:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793619

It's actually about 7% of the population committing 100% of the crime. <when she acknowledges that 13% of the population committing 50% of the crime is a problem. > Or, looked at another way, 97% of the adult to adult murderous violent crime is committed by 10% of the population. [That proportion might not be quite precise but that's about right for males between the ages of 17 and 35]. Statistics are fun. Heck, we could probably pin it down even more than that if we put IQ in the equation too. And further still if we added information on how often the criminals saw their fathers in the year before their crime. Mqurice