Posted on 06/30/2008 1:44:38 PM PDT by 3AngelaD
Prince William County (VA) officials Friday attributed a 19.3 percent decline in crimes against people from 2006 to 2007 to last year’s crackdown on illegal immigrants. Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart said the major difference between Prince William and other counties where crime is on the rise is the county’s “very aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration...”
But Nancy Lyall of Mexicans Without Borders, an immigrant advocacy group, said that the declining crime rates are misleading....
Prince William’s homicides declined by 43.8 percent, from 16 to nine, the incidence of rape increased by 33.3 percent, from 21 to 28, robberies declined by 22.5 percent, from 351 to 272, and aggravated assault declined by 18.2 percent, from 379 to 310, said the study released last week....
Prince William’s overall crime rate — the number of crimes per 1,000 residents — dropped from 21.6 in 2006 to 19.8 in 2007, down from 24.5 in 2004 and 22.8 in 2005. Some year-to-date crimes against people for 2008 have also declined from last year’s numbers through the same time period.
There have been 1,102 total assaults through May of this year, compared with 1,170 through the same time period for 2007. There have been 86 felony assaults in 2008, down from 153 in 2007, and robberies are down to 78 in 2008 from 103 in 2007. There were nine rapes in 2007, compared with 10 in 2008, and there were three homicides in 2007, compared with four in 2008.
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Illegal aliens connected to criminal activity?!?! I refuse to listen to such blatant racism!
Perhaps other counties (or states... or the feds) will do similar things. One can hope right?
“To attribute the crime rate to the [immigrant] resolution is not true,” she said. “It may be impacting the crime rate, but it’s not impacting the crime, especially against the immigrant community. There are a lot of crimes unreported [now] because immigrants are afraid of going to the police.”
Huh?
This statement is one of the most racist statements I have ever seen on FR.
Equating removal of illegal immigrants with a drop in crime?
How dare you! /////////////SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Doesn’t it stand to reason with less illegal aliens their will be less illegal alien crime? What the hell is so hard to understand about this? It has nothing to do about race. They could be illegal canadians, illegal germans, or illegal russians. If their illegal and committing crimes, if we get rid of them, we get rid of their crime as well. Another really difficult concept for lefties to comprehend!
Another blow to PWC’s village idiots, Mexicans w/o (Northern) Borders. I wonder if these folks ever get tired of being wrong?
HUH! Bigot! Racist! /sarc.
Logic doesn’t sit too well with lefties. They would rather feeeel good.
Yeah, like murders will not be reported if we enforce our immigration laws! What an idiot. That woman is an employee of the Prince William public schools, no less, and has been known to use school district resources in her work for “Mexicans without Borders,” which is a branch of the Virginia Socialist Party. Corney Stewart should be governor or perhaps in the U.S. Senate instead of that dim bulb Jim Webb.
ping
Who’da thought cracking down on ‘children of God’ could get such results?
“To attribute the crime rate to the [immigrant] resolution is not true,” she said. “It may be impacting the crime rate, but it’s not impacting the crime, especially against the immigrant community. There are a lot of crimes unreported [now] because immigrants are afraid of going to the police.”
Prince William’s homicides declined by 43.8 percent, from 16 to nine, the incidence of rape increased by 33.3 percent, from 21 to 28, robberies declined by 22.5 percent, from 351 to 272, and aggravated assault declined by 18.2 percent, from 379 to 310, said the study released last week.
She's dumber than a bag of hammers, or thinks we are. Unless people are doing a good job of hiding bodies, the murder "rate" is down. I don't care if illegals don't report crimes committed against them. They can go home.
This reduction in illegal immigrant crime will lower the numbers for crime committed by whites. Hispanic criminals, unless they look like Walter Williams, are listed as white.
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