{"id":349,"date":"2008-01-09T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/01\/09\/2007-semi-annual-ucr-data\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T13:19:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:19:01","slug":"2007-semi-annual-ucr-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/01\/09\/2007-semi-annual-ucr-data\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 semi-annual ucr data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>according to the fbi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/ucr\/prelim2007\/index.html\">semi-annual uniform crime report numbers<\/a> for 1\/1\/07 to 6\/31\/07, both violent crime and property crime have declined since <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/2006-fbi-crime-reports-now-available.html\">2006<\/a>. violence and property crime were also down locally, in both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/ucr\/prelim2007\/table4.htm\">minneapolis and st. paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>one needs to squint pretty hard to find bad news in these data, which is <em>good news <\/em>in light of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/ucr\/prelim2007\/table3.htm\">2005\/2006 uptick<\/a> in violence. here&#8217;s hoping that the new numbers, combined with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2007\/12\/13\/123441\/87\">joe biden&#8217;s<\/a> early departure, will keep crime from becoming a crazy-making issue in the 2008 elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/28-ucr0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153545393125716978\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/29-ucr0.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe press release also offers this disclaimer:<\/p>\n<p>Because of the complexities involved, the FBI makes no attempt to interpret the data, <em>which we leave to criminologists and sociologists<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>nice. we&#8217;ll do our best to get it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>according to the fbi&#8217;s semi-annual uniform crime report numbers for 1\/1\/07 to 6\/31\/07, both violent crime and property crime have declined since 2006. violence and property crime were also down locally, in both minneapolis and st. paul. one needs to squint pretty hard to find bad news in these data, which is good news in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}