Thread: New FBI Crime Report Omits Kidnapping and Drug Activity, Paints Misleading Picture of

New FBI Crime Report Omits Kidnapping and Drug Activity, Paints Misleading Picture of Border



by Sylvia Longmire
1 Oct 2015

This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which summarizes a year’s worth of violent crime statistics from across the country. At a glance, it shows that violent crime is down across the country and in the State of Texas. However, the data used to make these assessments doesn’t include kidnappings or specify what crimes are drug- or cartel-related, painting a skewed picture of everyday life along some parts of the southwest border.

According to a Houston Chronicle summary report, the UCR data for 2014 showed the overall crime rate in the US dropped 0.2 percent and the murder rate fell 1.2 percent from last year. The statistics for Texas look just as positive, with crime and murder rates either holding steady or dropping very slightly from the previous year.

The report did note two things—the relatively high murder rate in Houston (although that is still down a small bit from 2013), and the very low homicide rates in El Paso and the Brownsville-Harlingen area. A first look at these numbers implies to the casual reader that Texas border communities are quiet with little criminal activity. However, the fact that UCR data does not track crimes that are unique to border areas—and specifically related to drug cartel activity—paints a misleading picture for those not familiar with daily life in South Texas.

UCR data is compiled from thousands of law enforcement agencies that voluntarily provide their crime data to the database. There is no standard for how each agency classifies a particular crime, and no audit process to ensure uniformity in the data. But most significantly, the UCR data does not include kidnappings or drug trafficking-related crimes. The data also does not specify if violent crimes were committed by or against traffickers, so it is impossible to determine if the proportion of violent crimes occurring in Texas related to drug trafficking has changed.

Another important point to make is that UCR data can only be interpreted based on crimes reported to the police and input into the system. Much of the violent crime and kidnapping activity occurring in some border communities is being committed against drug smugglers and illegal immigrants—two groups that are not motivated to report criminal activity to the police for fear of being deported or arrested. When local news outlets along the border report kidnappings or gang-style shootings, they rarely mention or follow up with reports about possible cartel or drug trafficking connections.

While the UCR violent crime data for 2014 is encouraging both at the national and state level for Texas, it is important to remember that statistics are only a starting point for crime analysis; they can be skewed many ways to prove a point or further an agenda. In this case, it’s crucial to look deeper into the ample evidence and reports of violent drug cartel activity in Texas and elsewhere along the border to maintain a more realistic perspective on how it affects local communities.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...icture-border/

01/10/15

10 dead, 20 injured in shooting at Oregon community college

Oh, right. The National Park Service is going to come out and take them in!!

Originally Posted by Captainron

Oh, right. The National Park Service is going to come out and take them in!!

Nation Park Service SWAT at Statue of Liberty

SWAT

The United States Park Police’s Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) has been in existence since 1975. This highly trained team is proficient with a variety of weapons including the submachine gun, assault rifle, sniper rifle, and less lethal weaponry. The SWAT Unit conducts high-risk search warrants for the USPP Narcotics and Vice Unit, as well as for allied Federal, State, and local agencies.

http://www.nps.gov/subjects/uspp/spe...ces-office.htm

I believe this story that tells of the "gun free zone" that obviously wasn't for the criminals is a poster child story for why adults in our country who do not respect the purpose and rights of the Second Amendment should not be involved in education at all on any level.

Not only were the Security Guards unarmed at this school, no student or teacher could be armed at this school, leaving the only person with a gun at this school was the criminal with a gun and the students at the school, just fish in a barrel. Not only that but if you noticed after police got there they moved the students to some other location, make them line up, put their hands in the air and subjected them to a search, frisking, inspection in violation of their 4th Amendment rights.

I've never seen this before, where do local police get the idea that they can kidnap students, haul them on a bus to a secured location for the purpose of violating their 4th amendment rights?

This is outrageous! Is this how you train students to become willing victims of authority? Is this how you teach them to be sheep? Is this how you use Nazi tactics to brainwash a population to go willingly to camps and gas showers?

What's going on in our country is so foreign that's it's unrecognizable to this American. If someone showed me those pictures of the students being lined up with their hands up being frisked, searched and inspected, and asked me where this was happening, my answer would be Germany, not the United States.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Nation Park Service SWAT at Statue of Liberty

SWAT

The United States Park Police’s Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) has been in existence since 1975. This highly trained team is proficient with a variety of weapons including the submachine gun, assault rifle, sniper rifle, and less lethal weaponry. The SWAT Unit conducts high-risk search warrants for the USPP Narcotics and Vice Unit, as well as for allied Federal, State, and local agencies.

http://www.nps.gov/subjects/uspp/spe...ces-office.htm

DO YOU THINK THEY ARE EVERYWHERE? THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN IN NYC!!