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They are bringing without the ministry now, won't regulate tensions later.
Louis J. Freeh delivered a speech at the National
* Press Club in Washington. * * More than two hundred Washington-based reporters, congressional staffers * and interested lobbyists had come, and because the speech was carried by * C-Span, National Public Radio and the Global Internet Computer Network, * and would be the basis for articles in newspapers all over the United * States, Freeh was also delivering his message to a much larger national * and international audience. * * "The people of this country are fed up with crime," Freeh declared. "The * media report it, the statistics support it, the polls prove it." * * To drive home his point and authenticate the national menace, Freeh said, * "the rate of 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 * J |
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