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Mark wrote:
>(some good things about a crime web page....)and...
> 
> Finally, we should remember that statistics have been showing for
> several years that crime is steadily going *down*, while crime
> reporting has been going *up*.    That fact has lead to a general
> public hysteria disproportionate to the actual level of crime going
> on.
> 
> Mark

Mark,

   Well, yeah, I keep hearing all that.  My feeling, however, is that the 
"public hysteria" is not "disproportionate," and is not driven by increased 
crime reporting.  I think the decrease in murders in the cities, for example, 
is the result of the maturing of the drug trade.  Random murders and acts of 
violence - the things the public fears most - are not going down.  The 
randomness of the upper NW "shotgun robbers," or the lethal idiot drivers on 
the GW Parkway, these are not going down, as near as I can tell.  And stand 
by for all the "super predator" kids coming along.
   Bottom line: my personal perception is that it is more dangerous for my 
wife and me to go out, or just spend time outside. And I'm very used to city 
life.
   I think we need some sort of newsgroup or web site dedicated to crime in 
the DC area.

                               Dan