Jeff at Alphecca looks at the recent report that says violent crime is down but gun crime is up:

So as federal funds dry-up for municipalities’ crime fighting efforts, less police mean more crime. But that’s only half the story. Remember, I said there were two causes of the problem and the second one is — again only hinted at — in that second quotation. Here’s a hint: “…mostly young people and mostly killed by guns…”. Street gangs. I’ve been harping on it here at Alphecca for almost four years now.

John Lott looks at it too:

Does one year make a trend? Could be, but it is really hard to see any pattern in robbery rates over the last five years. The same is true for gun crimes. Because of the comparisons drawn in the piece regarding the Clinton administration, I have put down some numbers for violent crime. Just so that you can see that since the last full year of Clinton’s administration, the violent crime rate has fallen by 23 percent (15 percent since 2001). Since so much weight is put on robbery, it has fallen by 19 percent since the end of Clinton (7 percent since 2001, though again I think that it is hard to see any pattern since 2001).

Not sure why Clinton administration is the starting point but it looks like overall crime has been down and likely due for an upswing. Or, you know, it’s all that blood in the streets from the expiration of the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons that we were warned about.

Posted in uncategorized on September 13th, 2006 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |