>I can never figure this out. For the last four years we get monthly reports about crime and violence at the state and federal level. The statement is always the same: “Violent crime is down. Murder and rape have increased”! What does that really mean? It sure sounds rosy - “Violent crime is down”. It is apparent that murder and rape are not considered as violent. Perhaps they have a different category such as, “Expected or normal events”?
I would suspect that these specific violent crimes have increased, and that others (which one, I am not sure) have decreased.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
