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Atlanta Journal-Constitution Botches Crime Stats in Defending John Lewis
NewsBusters ^ | January 16, 2017 | 10:12 PM EST | Tom Blumer

Posted on 01/17/2017 11:08:31 AM PST by Olog-hai

On Friday, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, whose 5th District includes the City of Atlanta, said of Donald Trump that “I don’t see the president-elect as a legitimate president.” Trump characteristically fired back with a two-part tweet suggesting that Lewis “… spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results.”

As would be expected, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution rushed to Lewis’s defense. In its apparent haste to do so, a pair of journalists at the paper committed a colossal math blunder vastly understating the city’s crime rate. With that mistake, the paper made the city look over 13 times safer than it really is. Longtime blogger Don Surber captured the paper’s error, which has since been corrected without any indication that a correction was made. […]

Surber cited 2014 FBI crime statistics showing that the city’s crime rate was 1227.4 violent crimes per 100,000 residents. That works out to one violent crime for every 81.5 residents. That leaves the mystery as to where the paper came up with its “one per 1,120” figure. The answer is that it went to the FBI’s 2015 crime stats and blew a math calculation a fourth-grader (or to play it safe, I should say a fourth-grader educated in the early 1960s) would have gotten right. …

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TOPICS: Local News; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: atlanta; crimestatistics; journalconstitution; lewis
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1 posted on 01/17/2017 11:08:31 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

What a surprise. That rag has always been useless.


2 posted on 01/17/2017 11:09:37 AM PST by Conserv
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To: Olog-hai
...the paper committed a colossal math blunder vastly understating the city’s crime rate.

Any chance that it was a *lie* rather than a "blunder"?

3 posted on 01/17/2017 11:12:00 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Gay State Conservative

EVERY mainstream press outlet is FAKE! If they print the truth they will get fired!


4 posted on 01/17/2017 11:18:29 AM PST by gr8eman (Keep Winning!)
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To: Olog-hai

Math is not a friend of liberals.

One good example is the gubmit’s elimination of racial categories in the Chicago crime statistics.

If they state the truth, one finds that 1) the Chicago police are extraordinarily not violent when it comes to handling the perps, and 2) the majority of the perps are from certain areas which are inhabited by folks of certain cultures.


5 posted on 01/17/2017 11:18:59 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai

Purveyor’s of fake news are being exposed left & right. 8>)


6 posted on 01/17/2017 11:20:35 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Olog-hai

“Error” in John Lewis’s favor and a very quiet correction later.

SOP for Fake News Media


7 posted on 01/17/2017 11:22:13 AM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: Olog-hai

Leave it to the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation to get it wrong.


8 posted on 01/17/2017 11:25:46 AM PST by euram
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To: Olog-hai

You mean defending “Stockholm Syndrome John Lewis>

He joined and supported the Democrats who persecuted him on the bridge in 1965.


9 posted on 01/17/2017 11:27:32 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Olog-hai

Math is hard.

How many editors does it take to edit an article from Atlanta Journal-Constitution ?


10 posted on 01/17/2017 11:37:05 AM PST by stylin19a (Hey obamas-it's Ray Charles time - "Hit the Road Jack"...you know the rest)
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To: Olog-hai

First of all...John Lewis is not loved throughout the USA!!! In fact, his little cute ploy is going to help destroy the Democrat Party come the MId Term elections of 2018!!! He has pulled the dumbest stunt that any Obamabot idiot could ever flip out, publicly.

Proof in the pudding....Senator, Cory Booker will be attending the Trump POTUS swear-in ceremony on this coming Friday!!! Booker is not-too-bright, but he is smart enough to know...that anyone that wants a meaningful life in politics, should never pass up attending the change over of POTUS administrations!!! Lewis, dumb butt that he...has destoyed his own history, hating racist, that he is!!! I love it!!! LMAO!!!


11 posted on 01/17/2017 11:51:55 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Is this the topic Bill O’Reilly commented on during his show, agreeing with the liberal paper and sounding offended about Trump’s behavior?


12 posted on 01/17/2017 12:00:00 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

Not being a watcher of the real-life Ted Baxter, I would have missed it.


13 posted on 01/17/2017 12:06:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Robert DeLong

Exposed on concervative sites only. Don’t hold your breath CNNABCNBCMSNBECBS will correct it.


14 posted on 01/17/2017 12:38:58 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Olog-hai

Every time I set eyes upon John Lewis, I know my 4 year old dog has great intellect than this dude has.

His mouth, mannerisms, and wisdom represent the worst part of his filthy district.


15 posted on 01/17/2017 12:56:23 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Olog-hai

The Atlanta Urinal Constipation is a pinko commie rag.


16 posted on 01/17/2017 1:11:33 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: bgill

Yes but conservative sites are stepping up to the plate to expose the left leaning sites. No I do not expect the left leaning sites to correct themselves, unless it is weeks later and very quietly.


17 posted on 01/17/2017 1:22:11 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Olog-hai

I aspire to the same. However, occasional TV’s in public locations running in public places present the opportunity to flip through the channels.

It could be that my goal on this thread to spotlight O’Reilly’s strong allegiance to the establishment and to nevertrumpism is futile, given the likelihood that only you and I will notice it. Anyway, I’m pretty sure he yet again showed his true colors with this one.


18 posted on 01/17/2017 1:34:01 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder the most call of illegitimate things in Lewis’ District knows about bastards.


19 posted on 01/17/2017 2:38:21 PM PST by keving (We get the government we vote)
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I haven’t read the whole thread, so this may already have been said, but look into the statistics of the average age of a grandmother in Atlanta’s public housing. Nuff said.


20 posted on 01/17/2017 2:55:27 PM PST by Beach333
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