Who retired in 1960 and was likely talking about statistics in the 1950's before NYC's demographics changed markedly and murder rates exploded.
Conservatives have a problem. When we say anything that enrages the Left, we cannot afford to have ANY error in the facts and figures we cite, because the Left will find one error and focus on that to the exclusion of all else to paint the speaker as a liar and a fool.
Conservatives are human and are also subject to being irrationally incited by emotional appeals to things they already believe.
Without effort to develop one’s character, intellect will usually be used in service of the emotions, and not the other way around.
Exactly, if there one wrong factoid in article the left can then discredit the whole thing.
As to the # of gays, yes they seem like way more than they are thanks to how visible they are now and leftist propaganda. The old canard I’m sure people believe (from the Kinsey report I think) is 10%, and I’ve heard even higher, ridiculous.
My brother recently moved out to LA near West Hollywood which is one of the gayest neighborhoods in the country.
I asked him what % he thought was gay in the area and he said 20% which shocked me. Data I’ve seen (by zipcode from US Census data) puts the actual number at 9.5%. Still under 10% in one of the gayest neighborhoods around. And my brother was under the impression they were at twice their actual numbers. Just using google I’ve seen idiots put the gay population of the area even higher, a third to 41%!!! Wikipedia says 41% gay male, their source being some demographic report than also says it’s 42% females over 18, meaning under 20% of the population are regular men, the fewest anywhere in the world outside of a nunnery! This takes fuzzy math to whole new level.