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From the Mid-Hudson Valley Perspective Archive
Violent Crime Still at Lowest Level in 30 Years
WASHINGTON - The nation’s crime rate was unchanged last year, holding at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Department reported Sunday.
(Posted Monday, September 26, 2005 ) <Read it>
--Las Vegas Sun (AP)--
Editorial Comment
The left reads a story like this, along with statistics on increasing incarceration rates, and and asks why all those people are in jail if crime is down. In 2003, an Associated Press story called it a “paradox”. It’s funny how self-described “liberal intellecuals” have a hard time making this obvious connection. Surprisingly, though, this story does make the connection. - Ed.