Only a Puerto Rican could have the righteous anger to properly respond to such high-browed asshattery as this.
What, you ask could have me so livid this early in the morning? From today's Roanoke Times:
What, you ask could have me so livid this early in the morning? From today's Roanoke Times:
Van Patten said the valley's rape rate suggests that the area is
unsafe for women and children, and he said the assault rate indicates
"people's willingness to wail on one another."
"The people in the Roanoke Valley are mean," the criminologist said.
"People are willing to resort to physical altercations to resolve their
differences."
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The Times article inspired me to look at the FBI's site on national crime statistics. They might have considered doing the same. At the very beginning, the FBI gives this warning:
"Until data users examine all the variables that affect crime in a town, city, county, state, region, or college or university, they can make no meaningful comparisons. ...
"Each year when Crime in the United States is published, many entities—news media, tourism agencies, and other groups with an interest in crime in our Nation—use reported figures to compile rankings of cities and counties. These rankings, however, are merely a quick choice made by the data user; they provide no insight into the many variables that mold the crime in a particular town, city, county, state, or region. Consequently, these rankings lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions adversely affecting cities and counties, along with their residents."
Hope that makes you feel better. That "criminologist" sounds like a hack.
Here's the link:
Crime in the United States 2004
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