Thursday, April 24, 2008
Your Justice Department Dollars At Work
0 commentsHere's what happens when your main, national law enforcement department, in this case, the Justice Department, alters its mission to narrowly define its function as underpinning the administration's efforts to root out every single terrorist of the Democratic Party currently working in any level of government, and effectively create One Party Rule in the U.S.
Doing that, however, tends to leave some gaps in its previous, historic mission...
You start with a bit of San Antonio,
Teen shot in the head in gang shooting on busy San Antonio street
Throw in a big glop of Chicago,
Chicago Police: 36 Shot, 2 Stabbed, 9 Dead Over Weekend
Add in a few dollops of reporting of increased homicide rates across the country...
According to the conservative Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a lobbying group in Washington, DC—Among the jurisdictions filing reports with PERF, total homicides in 2006 were 10.21% higher than they were in 2004. Increases of 20% or more in the number of homicides over the two-year period (2004 to 2006) were detected in:Here's the part from the PERF report that jumped off the page:
Baltimore County, Md.; Boston; Charleston, S.C.; Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C.; Cincinnati; Cleveland; Fairfax County, Va.; Hartford, Conn.; Kansas City, Mo.; Memphis; Nashville; Newark, N.J.; New Haven, Conn.; Orlando; Philadelphia; Rochester, N.Y.; San Antonio; San Jose, Calif.; and Seattle.Throughout 2006, PERF closely monitored violent crime rates. In an effort to obtain the latest trend information sooner than the FBI can provide with its massive Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program, PERF obtained statistics from 56 jurisdictions across the nation for 2006.Not only are the feds ripping the guts out of all the rights and freedoms that Americans have fought and died for over a couple of centuries, they're even screwing up those newly gained powers! Again, true totalitarian zeal is totally lost on the truly incompetent.
Also, here are some FBI stats from George W. Bush's first term:
CRIME CLOCK
One murder EVERY 32 MINUTES.
One violent crime EVERY 6 SECONDS.
One robbery EVERY 55 SECONDS.
One assault EVERY 7 SECONDS.
One theft EVERY 2 SECONDS.
One burglary EVERY 10 SECONDS.
One rape/sexual assault EVERY 2 MINUTES.
56 women are victimized by an intimate EVERY HOUR.
A teenager is victimized EVERY 19 SECONDS.
3 women and/or men become victims of stalking EVERY MINUTE.
A child is abused and/or neglected in America EVERY 35 SECONDS.
EVERY 19 SECONDS a violent crime is committed against a person at work or on duty.
A person is killed in an alcohol-related traffic crash EVERY 30 MINUTES.
An identity theft is reported EVERY 3 MINUTES.
Nice.
And this was as the country was coming out of the First George W. Bush Recession (not to be confused with the George H.W. Bush Recession), and people of means were starting to do a bit better. It'd be interesting to see what those numbers are like now that we're in the throes of the Second George W. Bush Recession.
Even the wacks at Newsmax ("Wackiness To The Max!") were on to this story in 2006. However, in their adorable, cuddly little way, they got everything exactly backwards. They proclaim Victory in Iraq!!! by stating that, in 2006, Baghdad had a lower violent death rate than Washington, DC!
Ummmmm, folks... A more serious reading of those numbers spell a tad more trouble here on the homefront: Washington, DC, along with a handful of other U.S. cities, has a higher violent death rate than BAGHDAD, fer crissakes!!!
What a legacy...
posted by Gotham 3:05 PM
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