do I really have to say it???
Posted on 03/24/2015 4:04:35 PM PDT by driftdiver
Crime stats published by the FBI and relied upon by the media distort the gun violence and leave the public with the impression "mass shooting" incidents are a much bigger threat than they really are, according to a criminologist and Second Amendment scholar.
The bureau's annual reports tabulating and classifying a wide range of crime throughout the nation have been historically free of politics, but John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said the latest statistics contain numbers that are misleading at best and deliberately fudged at worst. Lott believes the numbers may have been presented to overstate for political purposes the true risk of being a victim of random gun crimes.
"The FBI put out a clearly incorrect set of numbers on public shootings shortly before the November election last year,” said Lott, a frequent opinion writer for FoxNews.com and author of "More Guns, Less Crime." “I have been reading FBI reports for 30 years and I have never seen anything like this.It is one thing for the Bureau of Justice Statistics or the National Institute of Justice to put out politically biased studies, but there has always been a Chinese wall separating the FBI raw data collection from political pressures.”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
They can’t have them. I don’t care if everyone in the country gets shot. They can’t have them. Bring it!
There is no “seems” about it.
When I was growing up there were some people and things that we kids held in awe, idolized, and accepted as the best of the best: George Washington, Joe Louis, Rocky Graziano, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Cousy, The US Marine Corps, The FBI, the USA.
Politics has ruined the FBI and it has fallen from grace.
do I really have to say it???
They invented a new hyphen word: active-shooter. Who makes up this crap?
FBI crime statistics will never been the same after six years of Eric Holder.
He’s already stated that he was going to look at how FBI interracial crime statistics are gathered and reported. The numbers will now be meaningless.
Geez I wonder who would do that and why? Doy!
Only an idiot would put much stock in government figures. Government figures and statistics are the new bull****! Only an idiot...
They’re only reminding us of the top secret cases of Jokerboy and the Newtown Martian.
The FBI under His Arrogance and Eric the Corrupt has become a real clown outfit. The crime lab, once considered the best, is nothing more than an evidence, as ordered, mill. The crime statistics are equal to or less than the crap that the BLS puts out. Finally, the agents are first political hacks, union members, and if not inconvenienced, law enforcement.
The only thing to make it more laughable would be to appoint Slow Joe as the head.
The original study is available here
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2524731
It is worth downloading and reading!
John Lott's an insightful man... I'll bet he's right on this stuff.
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