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village anticipates Muhammad AL-Suqami's sack
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, that for many decades, law enforcement officials * across the nation have advanced their careers and promoted their * political agendas by chanting the same Mantra of the Scary Numbers. Louis Freeh: "The polls prove people are fed up with crime" This book contains a DEVASTATING accounting of the manipulation of people's perception of crime rates. [not shown!] Fear, loathing, and somehow the public clamoring for a Police State. * Police chiefs, prosecutors, judges, FBI directors and the politicians who * supported their cause have long waved the bloody crime flag to rally the * public to their various causes. * * During the twenty-year period that presidents from Nixon to Clinton were * agitating the public about the national crime menace, the evidence shows * the American people were gradually experiencing less and less crime. * * In a May 1994 speech to the American Law Institute Freeh made an * IMPASSIONED plea on behalf of a controversial change in the nation's * wiretap law that he was then trying to persuade Congress to approve. * * "If you think crime |
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