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To: Rufus2007

How now, old COW?

Check the stats, hon, rape has gone down over recent years. Good grief, these women are pathetic. The “Ms.” cabal has spoken....


2 posted on 10/21/2011 6:05:17 AM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: SueRae
Even the Fact-Checker site at the Washington Post on-line says that Plugs is wrong in his statements about murder and rape rates in Flint.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/bidens-absurd-claims-about-rising-rape-and-murder-rates/2011/10/20/gIQAkq0y1L_blog.html?hpid=z7

The best part of the article, however, is this quote from the sheriff:

" Interestingly, Flint Police Chief Lock has repeatedly asserted that cuts in staffing had little effect on the crime rate. As the Flint Journal reported in May: “Officials said the fact that 46 police officers were laid off last year had little to do with the escalating crime. Most of the crimes were between people that knew each other. ‘No matter how many officers we have, we can't stop disputes between two people in their own homes,’ Lock said.” Lock made a similar assertion in September, 2010, when FBI statistics were released showing violent crime in Flint had decreased in 2009. The Flint Journal reported: “A smaller police force doesn't automatically mean more crime, said Flint police chief Alven Lock. ‘There's been years when we had 300 officers and we still had more homicides,’ he said, referring to 1986, when he was in the homicide division and homicides hit an all-time high of 61.”

35 posted on 10/21/2011 8:59:31 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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