--- In [email protected], "Bill (William)Simmons" <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Of course the larger the number the better in studies worth any 
> serious consideration.
> 
> However,
> 
> Fairfield itself offers an amazing case study. Because of the length 
> of time factor of the study group.
> 
> 1. There would have been a crime rate prior to TM's introduction into 
> the community and should be verifable through past 
> public/police/court records.
> 
> 2. Then the introduction of TM and its organization to the community.
> 
> 3. And a 30 year study period in which the crime rate could be 
> tracted along with the steady growth of practising meditators.
> 
> To my way of thinking. Thirty years of meditations by a steadily 
> increasing population of meditators (far exceeding the 1% cl;aimed 
> necessary to reverse rising crime rates) must result in a reduction 
> in Fairfield's crime rates or the whole ME therory is disproved.
> 
> Has Fairfield itself ever been the subject of such a study. If 
> not,,,why not!!! How many crimminal offenses were reported in 
> Fairfield in the year TM meditators began in Fairfield and how many 
> reported offenses occured say last year?  The trends should point to 
> a declining crime rate given the significant number of meditators in 
> the community.
> 


For whatever it is worth:

http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/SocietalEffects/FairfieldCrime/index.cfm






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