Subject: Welcome to the Most Dangerous City in America....
GoodNewsBaltimore wrote in message news:...
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> Baltimore City's Population Figures Adjusted
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> Oct 27, 2004 2:15 pm US/Eastern
> Baltimore, MD (WJZ) New numbers show more people lived in Baltimore last
> year than previously thought.
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> Acting on a challenge by city officials, the Census Bureau has revised
> its most recent estimate of the city's population.....
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IS THIS THE BEST NEWS YOU CAN FIND ABOUT BALTI-PHUCKED???
The Census Bureau revised the number upward because Baltimore
Mayor Martin O'Moron has been WHINING about it for years now!
Bottom Line: It's a subjective measure... much like the reported
decrease in Balti-Morgue's violent crime rate... all while the
number of dead cadavers continue to pile up which "leaves Balti-
more with a per capita homicide rate that is one of the highest
in the country"... now that's an objective measure!
Any wonder why the FBI relies upon murder numbers versus police
department reports of assaults, .s and other violent crime???
As noted in the Baltimore Sun article dated October 28th,
"criminologists say homicide tallies are a useful measure
because they are a category in which police have little
discretion in the way the crime is reported." That should
tell everyone everything they need to know about this
phucking Mayor we have in town! He accused a former police
chief of "cooking the crime books" and yet Mayor O'Malley
has been using the same damn recipe for 5 years NOW!
Violent crime drops sharply in city
by Ryan Davis (Baltimore Sun Staff)
Originally published October 28, 2004
Baltimore police are expected to announce today that they have
achieved a one-year reduction in violent crime that is among the best
in the country among large cities.
Commissioner Kevin P. Clark plans to announce that violent crime in
the city declined 19 percent from 2002 to 2003 and 40 percent from
1999 to last year.
Today's announcement is based on a police analysis of the FBI crime
data released this week.
The figures included in the FBI report were released by city police
this year, but the data comparison gives Baltimore an opportunity to
trumpet its law enforcement efforts.
The statistics are reported by law enforcement agencies to the FBI.
The reduction in violent crime from 1999 to 2003 was the largest among
the cities that are among the nation's 25 most-populous and reported
data to the FBI, according to the local police analysis.
The one-year reduction is the second-largest among those cities,
Baltimore police said.
The FBI report does not include data from several of the country's
most populous cities, including Chicago.
The 1999 comparison is limited to 20 of the country's largest 25
cities, and the 2002 comparison is limited to 18 of those cities.
"These numbers show that the men and women of this department have
done a remarkable job of making this a safer city for law-abiding
residents," said Police Department spokesman Matt Jablow.
Although the city reported a decline in violent crime, the number of
homicides increased from 256 in 2002 to 271 last year, according to
police statistics.
That leaves Baltimore with a per capita homicide rate that is one of
the highest in the country.
Jablow said many of the city's homicide victims are involved in the
drug trade.
Criminologists say homicide tallies are a useful measure because they
are a category in which police have little discretion in the way the
crime is reported.
Nationally, violent crime fell 3 percent from 2002 to last year,
according to the FBI report, but homicides increased. |