Terrell,
What about per capita crime nationally? I would guess that has dropped, since the national population is larger than 35 years ago and total crime has dropped -- due to many factors, including surely, those you mention. If per capita crime has dropped nationally, but risen in MPLS, that's an interesting event for folks to analyze and try to account for. If you have and could post the MPLS and national per capita numbers, that would be helpful. Thanks. Martha Bolinger ECCO Terrell Brown wrote: > Martha Bolinger comments on the Minneapolis crime rate: > > Concerning the Minneapolis 35 year crime low, I believe Lisa McDonald's > campaign had numbers showing that per capita crime today is actually > higher, because the total MPLS population is less than it was 35 years > ago. The "low" refers to a drop in total numbers of serious crimes > reported. Perhaps Lisa et al could check my memory. > > [TB] That is correct, if you take crime on a per capita basis it is > now much higher than it was when the population of Minneapolis was at > its peak. > > Crime everywhere is going down, much of it is a function of the aging > population. Younger people commit most crime and we just don�t have as > many people in the high crime age groups as we did a few years ago. > But, that will be changing as the birth rate has been going up. > > Crime, as anything that is measured with statistics, can be looked at > in a number of ways and the Mayor is using the ways that make her look > good. Her opponents won�t be as kind. _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
