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Message: 3 Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:18:12 -0600 From: Bob Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [StPaul] Support your local police force. To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I just wanted to add additional rebuttal to Russ' "common sense." New York City Police Department 2003: 37,000 officers, Approximately 1 per 190 citizens, with a violent crime rate of 7.3 per 1000 St Paul PD 2000: 321 officers, Approximately 1 per 1000 citizens, with a violent crime rate of 12.3 per 1000. [And why should there be more officers per 1,000 people? Because within those 1,000, there's much more crime! That's why there is a higher correlation cops to population in NYC, than in St. Paul. That's why they were needed in the first place! My point exactly proved!] Rowdy Russ Hanson. The Truth in St. Paul. These are the figures I was able to Google. I am not a statistician, nor am I a policy wonk. But I get really skeptical when I see someone using the term "common sense" as if they actually had the corner on that market. I find that guys on billboards generally have no more common sense than anyone else, but they do have loud and self-promoting opinions. Hence, it makes sense not to trust any opinion referred to as "common sense." While I admit being less than expert at finding, reading and interpreting data, I have to say that the numbers above suggest that officers in St Paul have their hands full in comparison to the NYPD. I really don't mean to do the ad hominem thing here-- I just want to be clear on what the SPPD is faced with, and why they earn their dough. Give 'em a break- there are far bigger fish to fry in this town. Bob Parker Dayton's Bluff __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ------------------------------------------------- JOIN the St. Paul Issues Forum TODAY: http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/ ------------------------------------------------- POST MESSAGES HERE: [email protected] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
