Monday, August 15, 2011

Latest crime stats

Here are the latest crime reports for Jackson and Madison along with some amateur analysis. Used these reports because they are the only ones posted online by local governments.

Jackson crime stats for week ending August 7, 2011.

Jackson major crimes overview for week ending August 7, 2011.

The crime reported dropped slightly from the week before: Property crimes 1.9% and violent crime 6.1%. However, property crimes fell 9.4% and violent crime 4.9% in the last 28 days compared to a year ago. Year to date? Property crime down only 2.5% as house burglaries spiked 11.5% and overshadowed the 36% drop in business burglaries.

Now on to Precinct 4. Auto burglaries: Up for the last 28 days 34% compared to last year. Year to date: Up 10.6% over last year. Doesn't seem like much until you realize that means 58 more cars. Auto burglaries were down YTD for all other precincts.
Auto theft? Down YTD for all other precincts but up for Precinct 4: 9% - 19 more cars stolen. Business burglaries YTD are down by 30% or more in all precincts. House burglaries? Up in all precincts YTD. It is the one category that is consistently increasing. However, Precinct 4 saw the largest increase: 28.3% YTD compared to last year, an increase of 111 homes.

Violent crime decreased 5.1% last week and 14.7% YTD. Aggravated assault went up across the board (113% in last 28 days and 20% YTD). However, Armed robberies, carjackings, and homicides fell substantially YTD. Unfortunately, rapes are up 27%. Precinct 4 saw a YTD decrease in armed robbery (47%), carjacking (17%), and homicide (57.1%) but a YTD increase in rape (58%) and aggravated assault (10%).

City of Madison crime reports through August 4, 2011.

Then there are these little comments about crime on the JFP site. Just could not resist posting here:

"Crime does kill people. Automobile accidents kill many more people. Inadequate health care, many more people still. And they're all equally dead.

When I hear local news ominously announce "A MAN WAS SHOT IN THE LEG" for three segments in a row, but I don't see anything about automobile accidents or death due to preventable natural causes, that's not journalism—that's presenting urban violence as a form of sick, racially-charged entertainment for the amusement of the white suburbanites who now make up the largest and wealthiest portion of local television stations' target demographic. It's misleading, and it breeds racism.
posted by Tom Head on 08/15/11 at 01:50 AM"


or this one:

"Bill, you're not listening, or don't want to. The "perception" issue in criminal justice is not and never has been about whether crime exists or happens or is bad. We can stipulate all of that. The question for people who want to think in an effective way about crime is what kind of effect crime sensationalism (especially by media and politicians with nothing else to say) actually has on a community, its economic development and, thus, even higher crime rates. (Because it is bona fide fact that poverty and lack of jobs and "adequate" education in a community lead to higher crime rates; so do legacies of racism that create those conditions but go unleveled).

In other words, folks like you who just want to yelp about crime in Jackson are actually help create conditions where we have more of it. Nicely done.

For those interested in how media should actually cover crime, there are myriad resources based on real research. Here's one good resource that I hope Clarion-Ledger editors and TV news directors study carefully. Y'all are a huge part of the problem.posted by DonnaLadd on 08/13/11 at 11:12 AM"


Yup. complain about crime and you are part of the problem.



11 comments:

Boogie said...

Why Kingfish, don't you know burglaries and murders aren't the real problem? It's the *perception* that's the real problem...

Anonymous said...

Yup, blame it on everybody except the criminal.

Curt Crowley said...

Hell her later comments were even better. Six years later and the LaddFraud is still trying to make the hopelessly inept Robert "Perception" Moore look competent.

Here's the best part:

"I also bet you have no idea that former Chief Robert Moore, the one the Ledger and other media lifted out of context on what he said about "perception," was an expert on black-on-black crime when he was with the U.S. Marshals. I never heard the media ask him a word about it. They were too busy misquoting him."


No Donna, we didn't know that. Our ignorance of that information is most likely because it's bullshit. First, he was never "with" the US Marshals Service. He was the Presidentially-appointed figurehead "US Marshal" for one of the Illinois districts. The DUSMs are the career marshals who do law enforcement. Robert Moore shined a seat with his ass until Bush invited him to leave in 2002.

Secondly, that's not the kind of job where one becomes "an expert on black-on-black crime." The Marshals Service is primarily tasked with fugitive apprehension, serving arrest warrants, and prisoner transport. With some narrow exceptions, they don't do initial investigations of underlying crimes. Their duties are not such that they are in a position to become experts in "black-on-black" crime.

Donna, no matter how hard you try, you will never be able to make Robert Moore look like anything other than the clueless fool he proved himself to be.

Curt Crowley said...

And a little more fact-checking for the LaddFraud. Slick Willie appointed Moore to the Central District of Illinois. The counties in this district average a white population of over 90%. Several of the counties are over 98% white.

To put it into perspective, *Rankin County* has a higher percentage of black population than
the Central District of Illinois.

How could Robert Moore have become an expert on black-on-black crime, when there were so very few black people in the district?

I think the editor may need an editor.

Paul Mitchell said...

I believe that we really do need to adopt the JFP Crime Solving Solution. If blacks are committing crimes at a greater rate than their population percentage, white folks need to up the amount of crime they perpetrate.

Problem solved and NO RAAAAACISM!!!

KaptKangaroo said...

Hey Paul, welcome back! You back to blogging? Saw you were out on Safari!

KK

Anonymous said...

Looking at the cover of the find it in fondren magazine, all I could think was:

"look at all those home schooled kids.."

Shadowfax said...

I couldn't tell if you were referencing this or not, so, sorry if I'm double posting it:

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/Crime_Perception_Hurts_Jackson_Economy_081211/

Of particular note are the comments following the outrageous 'perception' claims. Several say they no longer watch the news because the media is obsessed with crime and keep reporting on it over and over again. OK; so the crime stats diminish if we stop listening to the news and reading the stats.

Anonymous said...

Ladd is on Twitter posting links to the Sovereignty Commission documents. I guess when a racial incident occurs it becomes time to piss a little gas on the fire and stir everybody up even more. Must be good for circulation.

Shadowfax said...

If that were the case, 8:13, the Clarion would have a billion subscribers.

Paul Mitchell said...

Shadowfax, and Bill Minor would be King for Life.



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