Crime Rates are Actually Increasing?

What I will speculate on is that public perception is as important as actual crime for those who run for political office in law enforcement.Reason for this speculation is the general platform of those who do run for this type of office. We are looking at reduction of the policing budget and reduction of overall crime rates in their ridings.The dominate public view towards those who commit crimes is long prison terms. Hence we see politicians responding to the public sentiment with the position of finding means of incarcerating persons who commit crimes for the maximum possible term. The speculation that at times questionable methods for obtaining convictions are implemented.

This is the base reason for the priorities of those who run for public office in law enforcement to be formed and acted upon.Implications are that ambition for office, results in catering to popular public sentiment for political gain, that then take priority over all other considerations in regards to law enforcement.The basic platform is reduction of the policing budget and longer and enforceable sentences as a means of obtaining a voting base and support.Reduction of the presence of law enforcement is a factor in meeting budgetary the budgetary agenda.The consequences of this is simply longer prison terms as a means of reduction of crime.It does not address the cause of crime and hence the ever increasing overcrowding and the hardening of those who find themselves incarcerated. This is reflected in the incarceration of some 2.2 million in the prison system, no consideration is given for the cost of keeping that number in the prison system.

Any law enforcement organization that advocated alternative means of crime reduction would face pressure and political alienation as a direct result.

St. Paul, Minn. — A new survey reveals that a significant proportion of crime in Minnesota goes unreported. Crime is reportedly down, but the results make it clear that the police record is incomplete.6,000 Minnesota’s, in a survey listed numerous crimes that they didn’t report to police, including sexual assaults, domestic violence and burglaries. Women had the highest rates of unreported crimes in the survey.

Overall, however, Minnesota’s reported crime rate in 2010 was down nearly 3 percent from the year before. However the implication is that the number in reality the number is skewered.For example spousal abuse, according to the same survey more than two-thirds of the incidents were not reported to police..

National Crime Victimization Surveys, found that the real annual level of hate crime in America averaged some 191,000 incidents — in other words, about 20 to 30 times higher than the numbers annually reported by the FBI. It turns out that almost 84% of hate crimes included violence ranging from rape to assault, while only 23% of non-hate crimes did.Considering that most of these crimes go unreported due to mistrust and fear of deportation, hate groups take advantage of this knowing this.

Conclusion is that actual crime rates are in fact not what is claimed in the media or any other source for that matter.The most honest thing that can be said about crime, is that,what the rate is, is a unknown.Crime rate numbers only reflect what is reported and does not take into account the number of unreported crime and so in reality, skewered.

A letter writer informs us that a man was shot in the face at his home in West Covina on Bromley Street. The shooting occurred Jan. 23, the man died yesterday. The shooter is apparently in custody.West Covina Police Department spokespeople forgot to mention this to us. A lieutenant said he didn’t know the details but would have someone get back to me.update 8:20 p.m. 1/29/08. The Headline reads, police forgot to report.In other headlines in L.A. the crime section headline reads, Crime in Hispanic Community Often Goes Unreported.”They’re being robbed, being sexually assaulted, being defrauded, the whole gamut of crimes,” said Sgt. Randy Sutton.