mardi 27 octobre 2009

What's This Statistic?

  • Crime in Illinois continued a steady two-decade decline last year, reported the Illinois State Police in its annual crime-rate index released today.

    While the crime rate was up slightly in suburban Cook County, it was mostly in crimes against property and not violent crime. The crime rate dropped in the collar counties of DuPage, Lake, McHenry and Will.

But the last line of the article:
  • The crime index was up 3.1 percent in Chicago, but down 2.2 percent over the rest of the state.
Crime is up? But we've been hearing it's down, and down big? Is someone fudging the numbers released to the media? Again?

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