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I'm sure you will continue to throw your trash up on the board. And the xenophobes and poorly informed will be want to believe it.

The problem with you Ben, is that you will not accept the information that is right in front of your face. Look, you don't want to believe it, you have determined that you will not believe it, and at this point I think you're incapable of coming to grips with it.

But those who inform themselves on the issue will know it is mis-info.

Those who inform themselves will use the links at the later part of the thread to read for themselves. Unlike you they will determine that 95% percent of outstanding homicde warrants in a city the size of Los Angeles is significant. Unlike you they will deterimine that 66% of felony warrants oustanding in a city the size of Los Angeles is significant.
More importantly, those who are creating policy and legislation will be using the facts, not your mis-info.

More importantly, those who have read this thread will realize that one of us is capable of owning up to spreading false numbers by accident, and another of us was pefectly willing to spread mis-information once the falicy of that information had been brought to their attention.

Since you're such a strong believer in stats, let me ask you this question Ben. First I'll lay the groundwork. Certain wasps and birds are common the central part of our nation. If a statistical map were made to represent where those bird or wasps could only be found, it would only show them to be in the central part of our nation.

Let's say you live in Southern California and go out to your garage and find some of the wasps or birds there, that should only be found in the central part of our nation. Here's the question. Are those wasps or birds actually there?

Everyone who might be making policy regarding those wasps or birds would have been operating under false pretenses.

Well guess what, we have an inordinate amount of illegal immigrants in our jail systems and 95% of the outstanding homide warrants target them. Sixty-six percent of the outstanding felony warrants in Los Angeles target them as well.

Ben, if you get stung by a wasp that statisticly shouldn't be in your garage, please don't let that stop you from seeking the proper medical attention. By the same standard, I won't let your statistics stop me from trying to get our illegal immigrant situation addressed in a manner that will not validate illegal and criminal behavior.