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    Quote Originally Posted by jetfire View Post
    Same, I clicked the link and immediately bought the kindle book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BigD View Post
    Mississippi is an oasis of tranquility and all parts of South Carolina are incredibly violent?

    Clearly Mississippi's threshold and/or ability to report violent crime are not the same as its neighbors. Which just shows you how difficult crime stats are.
    All those blank spaces on Mississippi’s map indicate “no data.” Not disagreeing with you, just clarifying the map.

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    You simply can't go by the FBI UCR for crime info. That is a voluntary reporting system. Many, many departments do not report to it. The homicide numbers listed in the UCR, for instance, are thought to be less than half the actual number.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Givens View Post
    You simply can't go by the FBI UCR for crime info. That is a voluntary reporting system. Many, many departments do not report to it. The homicide numbers listed in the UCR, for instance, are thought to be less than half the actual number.
    Tom, why do you think it is that so many departments don’t report to the FBI UCR?

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    Quote Originally Posted by zuplex View Post
    Tom, why do you think it is that so many departments don’t report to the FBI UCR?
    For most non-reporting departments, it’s a matter of manpower.

    When the term “police department” comes up, people tend to think of the Chicago PD or the Los Angeles PD, with over 10,000 officers each. The majority of law enforcement officers in the US work for small departments, of 10-15 officers at best. I once trained a rural Sheriff’s Office that had 8 road deputies. Agencies like that don’t have the manpower to assemble and turn in non-essential, non-remunerative government reports and surveys.

    Some big city departments don’t report, or under-report, for political reasons. You’d be amazed how departments “cook the books” to lower certain categories of crimes. Also, the US standard now is “incident based reporting”. If a man with a shotgun robs a group of three people, that’s three armed robberies. It goes in the stat’s as one. The truth is, violent crime is much more common than most folks are willing to believe.

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    I wish people knew about how the crime stats are actually manipulated. A family member at a very large city PD once told me that he had been dispatched to a report of two men shooting at a third. Since no one was hit, instead of logging it as an aggravated assault, my relative’s supervisor had him document the incident as a report of people shooting guns off within city limits. I’d be pleasantly surprised if every large city PD wasn’t playing the same games when reporting the crime stats.
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    The first time in a really long time I was mortally concerned for my well being due to the predations of two others was in my current tiny town in W. Texas that has an advertised violent crime rate of 1/2500.

    Another Tom Givens' saying "ain't no Mayberry's anymore"

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