DISCOURAGING: Crime is going up; the stats are being manipulated

Thursday, September 12, 2024

https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2024/09/11/abcs-david-muir-lied-about-crime-falling-under-biden-harris-n2644601

ABC’s David Muir Lied About Crime Falling Under Biden-Harris
John R. Lott, Jr.  | Sep 11, 2024

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DAVID MUIR: “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country, …” 

In fact, Trump was correct about the increase in crime under Biden. While violent crime fell by 17 percent under Trump, Biden has seen it rise by 43 percent.

Muir doesn’t understand what the FBI is measuring. The FBI counts the number of crimes reported to police. Trump was right that less than half of police departments are now giving that data to the FBI, but, more importantly, Trump was discussing what was happening to total crime, not just the number of crimes reported to police.

There are two measures of crime: One, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), counts the number of crimes reported to police yearly.

The other, the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey, asks about 240,000 people each year whether they have been victims of crime, in an attempt to measure both reported and unreported crimes.

We know that crime victims report only about 40 percent of violent crimes and 30 percent of property crimes to police.

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Like the Covid “vaccine” injury stats, the Gooferment has put their collective “thumb” on the scale.  

Sigh!

Like economic data on inflation, they redefine the yardstick.

Argh!

All to make themselves look good.

Makes you not want to believe anything that they say.

Why report “unemployment nubers”?  Just report Social Security Tax Receipts.  Because they want to fudge the numbers.

Argh!

We know they don’t enforce the “felon in possession of a firearm”!  Why not?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Why is this a problem that is NOT quickly permitted?

Thursday, September 12, 2024

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/elon-musks-starlink-to-provide-free-emergency-phone-coverage-in-wilderness-areas/

Elon Musk’s Starlink Offers Free Emergency Phone Coverage in Wilderness Areas Worldwide
By Andy Corbley – Sep 2, 2024 

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The satellite internet service Starlink is seeking approval to facilitate 911 calls from wilderness areas to help improve search and rescue efforts and reduce deaths.

Elon Musk’s satellite constellation has served a variety of publicized uses, like giving Ukrainians the ability to communicate during wartime. The most recent is a partnership between Starlink and T-Mobile seeking FCC regulatory approval for a direct-to-cellular service that would allow those deep in the mountains and forests to reach emergency services.

“SpaceX Starlink will provide emergency services access for mobile phones for people in distress for free,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

“This applies worldwide, subject to approval by country governments. Can’t have a situation where someone dies because they forgot, or were unable to pay for it.”

Direct-to-cellular functions would have a greater scope than just emergencies. Speaking about their application to the FCC, the chairwoman of the regulatory agency referred to it as the beginning of the “Single-network future” which she described as one in which the user “won’t need to think about what network, where, and what services are available; connections will just work everywhere, all the time.”

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Excuse me, but in stead of the the FCC chairwoman “speaking”, why hasn’t this been “approved” without further “Barbara streisand”?

Sorry, but I don’t understand.

Musk made an offer.  The response should be: “Go ahead with all due haste”!

Argh!

Argh!

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