2002 Crime Rate Lowest Since Records Kept

Fox News ^ | 8/24/03 | Associated Press

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WASHINGTON — Violent and property crimes dipped in 2002 to their lowest levels since records started being compiled 30 years ago, and have dropped more than 50 percent in the last decade, the Justice Department reported Sunday.

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Hmmmmm... Interesting isn't it? Crime went down on Bush's watch. I wonder if the libs will suck it up and give credit where credit is due.

[cpdiii]

We now have more guns being carried legally than anytime in our history. The armed and legal citizen is the first stop against crime.

[jgoode]

I wonder if the libs will suck it up and give credit where credit is due.

Never. It will be credited to Clinton's 100,000 'ficticious' new COPS or maybe it was 'Midnight basketball'!!

[southernnorthcarolina]

Some criminologists think tougher prison sentences and more prisons are key factors, because they take more criminals off the streets longer.

Ya think?

Men are more likely to be crime victims than women, blacks more likely than whites or Hispanics and people below age 24 more than those who are older.

The same could be said for the perps, as well. But that would be politically incorrect.

[xrp]

Go Bush!

[Imagine]

Unexpected consequences of everyone carrying a cell phone?

[Vinnie]

Crime went down on Bush's watch. I wonder if the libs will suck it up and give credit where credit is due.

Riiight.

" It's the result of policies instituted by Clinton"

[templar]

Crime went down on Bush's watch.

The vast majority of crime is dealt with at the State level.

[jwalsh07]

" It's the result of policies instituted by Clinton"

Would that be the policy of pardoning terrorists?

[BOBWADE]

PING

[baldy]

It's the result of over 20 years of unrestricted abortions.

[BOBWADE]

HERE IS THE MAIN REASON http://www.jrwhipple.com/guns/firearm_ccwmap.htmlSON

[Wonder Warthog]

"We now have more guns being carried legally than anytime in our history. The armed and legal citizen is the first stop against crime."

Add "three-strikes" laws, and I think you have the entire explanation. It certainly wasn't Clinton's "10,000 new cops (that never were)".

[Cobra64]

"2002 Crime Rate Lowest Since Records Kept"

Tom Daschle: "Iam saddened. Deeply saddened."

[Consort]

Many of the criminals were taken off the streets — and elected to office.

[Spok]

I am adamantly pro-life for moral and religious reasons, but it has occurred to me that women who get abortions may be making a positive Darwinian contribution to the gene pool. I mean, would it hurt humanity if Gloria Steinem had her tubes tied?

[ChadGore]

Thank You George W. Bush

[Hodar]

Unexpected consequences of everyone carrying a cell phone?

That is the best reason I have heard regarding the drop in crime. With every potential witness, also being a potential 'reporter', I can see where the paranoia could keep some of the cowardly cretin element from actually performing the crime they would ordinarily normally do.

[Hodar]

I am adamantly pro-life for moral and religious reasons, but it has occurred to me that women who get abortions may be making a positive Darwinian contribution to the gene pool.

This is a valid argument. Who is more likely to be a criminal, an unwanted child, who grows up in a violent, drug using, promiscuous home, born to a single, uneducated and unprepared mother; OR a child who is wanted and can be raised by responsible parents?

Simply look at the statistics of who has more abortions, then look at the environment these unwanted children would be growing up in. To remove emotion from the equation, you simply pay a little for an abortion up front, or pay a lot later to prosecute the criminal later(plus the untold number of victims who have been killed, maimed or robbed).

[Vladivostok]

John Kerry: "It saddens me that our young criminals must languish in jail for the sole purpose of increasing this administrations ratings in the polls."