Crime Shows Ignore Real Crime

The US Department of Justice released a very important report in January, but it got little attention. The report found that 80 percent of crime in the US was gang related and that the vast majority of that was drug related.

Those of us who have worked with crime data have long understood this problem. For example, 50 percent of counties in the US have zero murders in any given year and another 25 percent have just one murder. Over 70 percent of murders take place in just a little over 3 percent of the counties, but even that exaggerates the picture because anyone who has seen a picture of murders in a major city know how heavily concentrated they are in specific areas within the city. (more…)

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Tags: crime, CSI, CSI NY, gang violence, law & order
Posted Mar 24th 2009 at 6:27 am in Entertainment, Media Criticism | 8681859 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jlott/2009/03/24/something-to-remember-the-next-time-that-you-watch-a-crime-show-on-tv/Crime+Shows+Ignore+Real+Crime2009-03-24+13%3A27%3A19John+Lott