Another real difficulty is the increasing tendency to downgrade certain
crimes to delude the public into think that the "authorities" have
everything under control. The goal is to make the statistics look
good. The game is to protect the pension rather than protecting the
public.

Doan wrote:
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, 0:- wrote:

We live in a country were, with a reduction in school paddlings and more
and more support for NOT spanking children, we enjoy a 30 year decline
in violent crime, schools, despite the media trying to make it look
otherwise, are the safest place for children when it comes to violent
victimization.

Hahaha! Violent crime peaked in 1994!

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm

Either you are very STUPID or just a very bad LIAR!

Even child abuse numbers have a downward trend.

Oops! More lies:

* There have been substantial and significant increases in the
incidence of child abuse and neglect since the last national incidence
study was conducted in 1986.
* Under the Harm Standard definitions, the total number of abused and
neglected children was two-thirds higher in the NIS-3 than in the NIS-2.
This means that a child's risk of experiencing harm-causing abuse or
neglect in 1993 was one and one-half times the child's risk in 1986.
* Under the Endangerment Standard, the number of abused and neglected
children nearly doubled from 1986 to 1993. Physical abuse nearly doubled,
sexual abuse more than doubled, and emotional abuse, physical neglect, and
emotional neglect were all more than two and one-half times their NIS-2
levels.
* The total number of children seriously injured and the total number
endangered both quadrupled during this time.

Source:
http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/pubs/stat...3.cfm#national

Doan