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To: Landru
It's the screwed-up, hyper-vilolent, increasingly criminal and hellbent, mindlessly belligerent public. That's what has changed.

Violent crime in every category has been steadily declining over the last 20 years. Society is not getting any more dangerous, so there is no reason for cops to get more belligerent towards the people who pay their salaries.

336 posted on 03/23/2004 2:41:39 PM PST by Modernman (Chthulu for President! Why Vote for the Lesser Evil?)
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To: Modernman
Society is not getting any more dangerous

The United States Crime Index Rates Per 100,000 Inhabitants went from 1,887.2 in 1960 to 5,897.8 in 1996. By 1996 the crime rate was 313% the 1960 crime rate. In 1996 your risk of being a victim of a crime in the United States was 5.079%, and of a violent crime 0.634%. In 1960 these rates were 1.89% of being a victim of a crime and 0.161% of becoming victim of a violent crime.

338 posted on 03/23/2004 2:48:49 PM PST by cinFLA
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