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the important
*   fact that the nation's population grew substantially during that period.
*   
*   When this factor is taken into account, the picture still looks bad, but
*   not quite as bad as Freeh suggested. While the *numbers* of murders did
*   indeed almost triple, the murder *rate* barely doubled:
*   
*       In 1992, 10.4 murders per 100,000 people
*       In 1960,  4.7 murders per 100,000 people
*   
*   Amazing as it may seem that a leading law enforcement official might
*   try to buttress his cases through the selective use of statistics, that
*   was hardly the end of it.
*   
*   When the FBI director selected the years to illuminate his thesis for the
*   National Press Club, he compared a year when the nation's homicide rate
*   was at one of its *all-time lowest* points to that of a year when the rate
*   was near its *all-time high*. [extended discussion of homicides followed]
*   
*   Such selective use of statistics is dishonest.
*   
*   It is impossible to know what was going through Louis Freeh's mind as he
*   delivered his distorted, exaggerated and fundamentally flawed crime speech
*   to the National Press Club.
*   
*   We do know however, th