Coordinated efforts by the Police Department and Bristol County District Attorney’s Office have resulted in a significant reduction in gun crimes and increase in seizure of illegal firearms in the city. [More]OK, that seems a straightforward enough claim. How do they figure?
In 2008, that category of calls ["shots fired"] remained nearly the same.Well that's not a "reduction" then, is it?
There was a more than 50 percent decrease in the number of illegal guns seized by police, from 51 in 2006 to 24 in 2007, and a significant dropoff in 2008, with only 18 by mid-December.Excuse me? That's a decrease then, not an "increase." Less is the new more? I suppose you could argue that's because they're gathering them all up and there are no more to be found, but might we also wonder if there's another reason...?
I'm not saying violent crime using firearms hasn't decreased. We've seen a nationwide reduction in recent years. It would take someone like John Lott to explain why.
What I'm saying is, I don't see anything in this article to support the thesis we're presented with and expected to accept at face value--that such crime has actually been reduced in Fall River/Bristol County due to the policies being credited.
It's the new math
ReplyDeleteGovernment thugs lie to the people as a matter of course. It is time the people stopped feeling any obligation to be truthful to ANYONE working for government in ANY capacity.
ReplyDeleteOf course they are liars and are twisting things to shit on people's Constitutional rights, with full dishonest intent. These people are criminals after the fact of them being parasites.
ReplyDeleteTalk about liars and going full circle. I believe the proof shows that the WTC was taking down with exsploves. I have no clue who did it but the facts show without quesston that FR2 O3 + AL is in the dust. So why is the government hiding this information is the big question. Now comes the kicker. Who ever it was the pulled the towers knew there were hundreds of cops and fireman in the towers. Yet that fact didn't stop them from pulling the towers on these men. This only goes to show how much value the only one's lives are worth in the big picture. Clearly something they are seemingly too stupid to figure out on their own. They see us citizens as the enemy. They don't get the simple fact if they disarm the decent folks of this country they leave a hell hole in its place for their children and their children's children. Is sucking on the tit as a parasite that important to these people is yet another big question.
Commenter 'Zmixed1' writes an outstanding response.
ReplyDeleteWhat I know about Fall River is that they had a bump in the murder rate around 2002-2003, and from 2000 to 2005, their forcible rape, robbery and assault rates went up substantially. Rape and assault doubled, then rape was on the way down, and murders hovered between none and three a year.
For some reason, Fall River's known offenses are no longer being included in FBI Uniform Crime Report data, yet they are represented in other tables. There are no stats on the Fall River PD page, and I have yet to find a state source of information. Anyone care to shed some light on this? In fact, Massachusetts state Crime Reports only go up to 2005 as well.