Here's your bushitler economy.

[lonestarnot]

http://www.yahoo.com/s/596308

Robberies surge on violent crime survey By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 5 minutes ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/crime

WASHINGTON - The nation's murder rate rose slightly last year but the number of robberies skyrocketed by 6 percent, preliminary FBI data released Monday show.

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The statistics were part of an overall 1.3 percent rise in violent crime across the country in 2006 — the second straight annual increase.

However, car thefts, arsons and other property crimes dipped for the second straight year, the data show.

The modest increase in murders reflected a mixed bag for cities. The number of homicides in major metropolitan areas — those with at least 1 million residents — climbed by 6.7 percent. Smaller cities, meanwhile, saw their murders decrease by a collective 11.9 percent.

The spike in robberies marked the highest increase in any category of crime surveyed in the FBI report, which was compiled with data from more than 11,700 law enforcement agencies nationwide.

[YOY]

1. Um Dude...that's not the economy, It's the crime rates

and before you answer me with the obvious, yes there is a relationship between the two, but they are not 1:1.

[lonestarnot]

2. When things get bad, they get real bad. Desperate people do desperate things.

[YOY]

4. Yes, that's what I meant by a relationship

but it is not a crime = economy relationship. There are other factors: the cost of education, unemployment, economic disparities between the rich and the poor, etc...

[lonestarnot]

5. What are those if they are not economic factors?

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6. Some of them are. In particularly 'unemployment' is

but 'crime rate' is not an economic factor per se. As a factor it is no where near to the level of unemployment and GDP.

If it were Bangledesh (piss poor economy) would be a hotbed of crime. (Although it is full of dissent and has it's share of extremism and corruption.)

[lonestarnot]

7. So back to my original point, bushitler economy... it's a killer.

[kineneb]

3. leading by (lack of) example

the country's leader have no morals/ethics (have a little torture or genocide with that?), so why should anyone else... just say'n, the "trickle-down" theory may have something to do with the stats...

[lonestarnot]

8. slow drip every now and again every couple of years, but we're in a drought so no drips even.