[lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks

[Percival Myers]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:27 PM, WD wrote:
> Ugh.  That was a really dumb mistake.  There is still a major rise though:
>
> 1960: 160.9/100K
> 2002: 494.6/100K
>
> peak in 1991 at 758.2/100K
>
> It's interesting that murders are essentially the same in 1960 and
> 2002 (5.1 v. 5.6)  That makes me wonder if there is some
> methodological jimmying going on here: most murders probably get
> counted, but rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults probably don't.

That's what I was going to question - what is the assurance that
reporting is consistent from year to year, decade to decade. There are
likely some pretty wild variances between 1960 and 2002.

Percy