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From: brt@pyuxvv.UUCP (B Reytblat)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Kennesaw vs. Morton Grove
Message-ID: <191@pyuxvv.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 21:59:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 17 21:59:43 1984
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*<- just in case i still need it

>Subject: Kennesaw/Morton Grove crime stats for 1983 vs 1982
>Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 15:51:09 EST
>Article-I.D.: ihuxr.842
>
>		      ... Between 1982 and 1983 crime in Kennesaw increased by
>9 percent; no other city in Georgia's Cobb County showed an increase.  Most of
>the growth (from 160 crimes in 1982 to 174 last year) was in property crimes,
>mostly thefts.  But there was also one armed robbery and one rape, representing
>a 100 percent increase for the year in those crimes.
>
>In Morton Grove, by the way, crimes involving handguns decreased in the same
>period, from 10 to 4.

Hmmm. Looks like another proof that any set of statistics can be used to
support any point of view. Interesting how Mr.Stanwyck (by quoting TCT)
compares Kennesaw's TOTAL crime rate with Morton Grove's  HANDGUN-RELATED
crime rate.
I wonder if a fair comparison in THE SAME CATEGORIES would support his
thesis quite as well. If so, why were they not published ?
Also, it is interesting that TCT is willing to make conclusions based on a
statistical sample of 1 (that's right, ONE) !!!!!!!

In the future, Mr.Stanwyck, please refrain from trying this sort of nonsense
in net.flames. Your article really belongs in net.jokes.

			In wombat veritas(veritus?).
			B.Reytblat
			...!pyuxvv!brt