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robbery and felonious assault:
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*       In 1992, 15.6 out of every 1000 Americans had been a crime victim.
*       In 1973, 17.8 out of every 1000 Americans had been a crime victim.
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*   Thus, during two thirds of the period discussed by Freeh in his
*   terrifying speech about the nation's soaring crime rates, the
*   American people themselves were telling the story of a declining
*   number of violent criminal attacks.
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*   Also, while there is no question that *reports of crime* increased
*   during these three decades, it was due to changes in police practices
*   and public attitudes and not *actual criminal events*. [This chapter
*   documents this complexity in detail]
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*   FBI Director Louis Freeh totally ignored this essential problem in his
*   February 1994 speech to the National Press Club.
*   
*   It was not, as he so vigorously asserted, *violent crime* that had
*   increased 371 percent since 1960, but the *reports* of violent crime.
*   
*   Why should we care if our national crime statistics are used properly?
*   
*   I strongly believe, that a false diagnosis of a disease almost certainly
*   will lead the doctor to prescribe the wrong medicine.
    
        UNCRACKABLE ENCRYPTION WILL ALLOW DRUG LORDS, TERRORISTS, AND EVEN
        VIOLENT GANGS TO COMMUNICATE WITH IMPUNITY. OTHER THAN SOME KIND
        OF KEY RECOVERY SYSTEM, THERE IS NO TECHNICAL SOLUTION.
    
*   And this false diagnosis is on purpose.
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*   When Louis Freeh told the National Press Club that homicides have almost
*   tripled since 1960, his audience had to have been disturbed. Freeh's
*   picture of a grim