Dec 30, 2008
2008 good news round-up
Radley Balko looks at the year’s good news:
Crime rates are still falling
Sex crimes are down, too
Divorce rate is at its lowest point in four decades
Life expectancy is up
We’re beating our biggest killers (cancer and heart disease)
The kids are all right
We have more leisure time
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“Crime rates are still falling.”
Obviously this journalist doesn’t live in Chicago where we have the highest murder rate in the nation and the number of bank robberies are through the roof.
Heh.. another Fux News story…
So because Chicago is worse than the rest of the country, the whole article is propaganda?
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