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violent crime has increased 371 percent since 1960 --- that's
*   nine times faster than our population has grown. In the past 30 years,
*   homicides have nearly tripled; robberies and rapes each are up over 500
*   percent; aggravated assaults have increased more than 600 percent."
*   
*   Crime is a white-hot public issue that has been shamelessly exploited by
*   cynical leaders for their own political and administrative advantage. Here
*   is how these callous manipulators have used the gut-level fears of the
*   American people for their own purposes. The rhetoric of crime in the
*   United States is in many ways more important than crime itself. [Most
*   of this STUNNING chapter not shown: buy the book!]
*   
*   Hard, consistent and detailed knowledge about crime has been gathered
*   by the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, part of the
*   Justice Department. Under this program, twice a year, 50,000 Americans
*   are asked dozens of detailed and probing questions about their experience
*   with crime.
*   
*   This procedure is considered highly reliable...and every year they publish
*   an authoritative annual report summarizing criminal victimization.
*   
*   Consider, for example, rape, robbery and felonious assault, the nation's
*   most widespread crimes of violence. These are terrifying events that
*   legitimately generate serious public concern about both personal safety
*   and the overall quality of life in the United States.
*   
*   In 1992, the most recent comparable year that is available from the
*   Census Bureau, has a startling comparison to twenty years before.
*   
*   Regarding rape, robbery and felonious assault:
*   
*       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.
*   
*   Thus, during two thirds of the period discussed by Freeh in his
*   terrifying speech about the nation's soaring crime rates, the
*   American p