Re: Liberal newspaper actually agrees indirectly that people (and not

Robert Low wrote:

> I don't like being shown my preferred beliefs are mistaken;
> but I can live with that, and afterwards I have fewer mistaken
> beliefs. But I really don't like publications that tell me
> I'm wrong but don't give me enough information to tell me
> why :-(

What?!?!  You can't be asking for the raw data?  "Just trust us!"



> >I think part of the difference is the way that crimes are recorded.  I
> >read that while crimes are still under investigation they're not
> >specifically recorded in the stats.  Maybe that was one of the things
> 
> That could account for part of the recorded reduction in crime
> rate, I suppose. Our changes have certainly been such that a
> static actual rate would result in far more crimes being
> recorded (though how the two compare between the UK and US
> I don't know).
> 
> It doesn't seem so mad, though; until some kind of investigation
> has been made it's unclear whether they're been a crime, a
> malicious report, or a mistake. There will always be some
> in the pipeline; committed this year, added to the stats
> next year. A good reason for prompt and timely trials :-)

The image I got was of a dead body showing up with a knife sticking out
it's back and the home ransacked, "We can't report this as a murder, the
investigation's still open."

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"In these modern times, many men are wounded for not having weapons or
knowledge of their use."
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artists gets together and a fight breaks out; quelle surprise."
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