of requests for funding, for misuse
of our tax money.
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Louis Freeh's FBI:
* "FBI Scare Tactics", By Richard Moran, The New York Times, 1996
*
* When the FBI re****ted that serious crime declined for the fourth year
* in a row, it was still making the statistics sound worse than they
* actually were.
*
* That's because Government tends to exaggerate the violent nature of
crime.
*
* According to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics,
less
* than a third of the 6.6 million violent crimes committed in the U.S in
1992
* resulted in injury; most of the victims suffered only minor cuts,
scratches
* or bruises.
*
* About 20 percent of them needed minor medical care; 7 percent went to
* emergency rooms. Only 1 percent of the victims were hurt seriously
enough
* to require hospitalization.
*
* The incongruity arises because of the way the law defines violent
crime.
*
* For example, aggravated assault is defined as either intentionally
causing
* serious bodily harm or using a weapon to threaten or attempt to cause
* bodily harm.
*
* Fortunately, most aggravated assault victims fall into the last
category;
* mos
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