"Beset with crime"? Not according to the numbers
Remember that woman at the Capitol Hill Neighborhood Safety Forum? The one I called out for saying that Capitol Hill is "beset with crime," despite having no evidence to back up her claim?
Turns out my criticisms were justified: data revealed today proves she really was wrong.
Some may have thought the speech given by Mayor Greg Nickels at last Monday's forum, where he said that crime in the Emerald City was at its lowest since 1968, was just puffery. Not so, according to the data released in a brief report on The Times' website - last year, Seattle really did experience its lowest crime rates in 40 years. The stats for 2007, as reported:
Turns out my criticisms were justified: data revealed today proves she really was wrong.
Some may have thought the speech given by Mayor Greg Nickels at last Monday's forum, where he said that crime in the Emerald City was at its lowest since 1968, was just puffery. Not so, according to the data released in a brief report on The Times' website - last year, Seattle really did experience its lowest crime rates in 40 years. The stats for 2007, as reported:
• Murder decreased 20 percent.
• Rape decreased 28 percent.
• Robbery decreased 9 percent.
• Aggravated assault decreased 12 percent.
• Burglary decreased 20 percent.
• Larceny and theft decreased 7 percent.
• Vehicle theft decreased 29 percent.
Last year, there were 64 crimes per 1,000 people. In 1968, there were 62 crimes per 1,000 people, according to the mayor's office.I don't know about you, but I feel like celebrating. 64 crimes per 1,000 people? That's a ridiculously low number. Locals who complain about the crime rates don't know how good they have it.
The 2007 rate was 14 percent lower than the 2006 rate.
The strangest pipe in my life, was vertical down, on top of my head, three teeth split, that was surely going to be a ten grander,
a girl was crying, scary as heck,
the object lesson, is that when a vet-drug sociopath talks to you in a nightclub, hand the door a few bucks to get him freighted.
That was Newscastle Upon Tyne, I think that the per capita serious head injury in central Newcastle is 1,000 out of a 1,000.
stats needs adjusting for high tone bitches in Thai copy Eyetie suits, & silver toecaps leaving their piece in London and being too darn attractive to chicks for their own safety.
'Central Newcastle had the highest number of incidents of violence against the person, with 236.5 for every 1,000 residents.'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1120016.stm
I exaggerate perhaps, but only just,
I got broken there, it sure felt like a clean geographic sweep of the entire gobshite census.
Crying "call me an ambulance" when the other punk is still breathing, is always a bad day.
Awesome.