FBI say's crime is down arcoss the country, homicides are down 40% and the list goes on!

According to FBI statistics, there is NOT an "increasing amount of criminal activity directed against children of all ages." There is, in fact, a stunning DECREASE of criminal activity against children - and adults. Look at these numbers:

U.S. homicides: down 40 percent 1992-2005.

Juvenile homicides: down 36 percent 1993-2005 (kids younger than 14).

Juvenile homicides: down 60 percent 1993-2005 (ages 14-17).

Forcible rapes: down 28 percent 1992-2006.

Does that look like a crime wave? It's the opposite - a crime plunge.
A massive federal study released last year found all child abuse down by 26 percent from 1993-2006 and child sex abuse down even more - 38 percent! As David Finkelhor, head of the Crimes Against Children Research Center, told The Associated Press, "it's the first time since we started collecting data about these things that we've seen substantial declines over a long period, and that's tremendously encouraging."It sure is! What it ISN'T is tremendously well-known. No, most people are still convinced that "times have changed" - for the worse. In fact, when a Gallup Poll asked Americans in 2009 whether crime was going up or down in this country, 74 percent said "up" - even though from 2008 to 2009, the FBI found a 10 percent drop in the murder rate. That is double-digit good news that did not get through to the vast majority of us.


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