Nov. 1, 2012 -
PRLog -- FOXNEWS.com reports: [WASHINGTON – Violent crimes unexpectedly jumped 18% last year, the first rise in nearly 20 years, & property crimes rose for first time in a decade.
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Wednesday that the increase in the number of violent crimes was the result of an upward swing in simple assaults, which rose 22%, from 4 million in 2010 to 5 million last year. The incidence of rape, sexual assault & robbery remained largely unchanged, as did serious violent crime involving weapons or injury.
Property crimes were up 11% in 2011, from 15.4 million in 2010 to 17 million, according to the bureau's annual national crime victimization survey. Household burglaries rose 14%, from 3.2 million to 3.6 million. The number of thefts jumped by 10%, from 11.6 million to 12.8 million.
"These simple assaults are so low-level in severity that they are not even included in the FBI counts of serious crime," Fox said. FBI crime data only counts aggravated assaults. The growth in violent crime experienced by whites, Hispanics, younger people & men accounted for the majority of the increase.
The slowing of declines in the second half of last year was seen by some academic experts as a sign that the years of falling crime levels might be nearing an end.]
The same way that the government ‘massages’
the economic data points such as unemployment & inflation to portrait a rosier picture than what actually exists, the FBI as well as local law enforcement agencies are famous for ‘reclassifying crimes’ to lower over all numbers for the same endgame desire. This endgame is one of wanting to present a unified picture that portrays a more palatable interpretation of the reality that is all around, rather than admit that things are slipping out of control. Consider that if violent crime levels in a certain town are skyrocketing, would a family looking to purchase a larger house for their expanding family make a large financial investment if the geographical region of preference was being swallowed by tidal waves of violent crimes? This is where the justification for the corruption of the data begins to manifest as the community pays their law enforcement officers with tax revenue & it comes from the property taxes. If the community decides they are fed up with watching their beloved ‘Mayberry’
town turn into a shady suburb of Chicago’s they will take their families & tax dollars to another community in hopes of finding a better environment to raise a family with values. So you can see why those who doctor the numbers often times feel righteous in what they do as they feel their dishonesty is for the greater good of the community, just like the economy for the nation as a whole.
This fudging of the numbers does a huge injustice to those who rely on the numbers when making monetary decisions. The impact of this trend hits an investor who reinvests his retirement savings back into the markets because he is assured that unemployment is down & inflation is nonexistent or a family buying a larger home based on local community crime stats that make the town seem safer than what it really is. Also impacted by this devious accounting system are the small business owners who are falsely made to feel comfortable with their local venues & choose to take out lines of credit to expand their business. The consequences for these people are real & could had been dealt with directly had they been supplied with trustworthy data from the onset. Would you ever knowingly make an investment on cooked data? I don’t think even the most wreckless of people would do such a thing, yet we are being intentionally misled & its ok.
Rather than focusing on the constant manipulation of data by those in government (to include local, state & federal), the focus here is more on the fact that the economy is degrading at an ever increasing rate & if we continue to be misled by flawed data we will end up beyond the point of no return. Across the country families are being forced to make tough decisions regarding the allocation of their budgets between needs & wants as a consequence of their factory job being outsourced to China. Things for some are bad enough that they are willing to break the law in order to acquire the much needed money & supplies to feed their kids or pay the rent. When things get this bad for enough people, the overall mood in the communities gets to one where nobody trusts anyone & the fear runs rampant. Neighbors stay inside & don’t let their kids play outside any longer. The community suffers as the cohesion that once was the foundation for Fourth of July block parties crumbles which ultimately leads to the breaking down of communities. As the genius Gerald Celente says: When people lose what they had & they have nothing left to lose, they finally lose it.
Hands down this is the worst ‘recovery’
in human history I’m afraid & people are starting to take note of this fact. As the ability for people to earn a living fades away the pleasantries of the community are the first thing to go. People are stressed constantly & their ability to cope with stress thins quickly. This leads to stressed out people everywhere. Road rage rises & people losing their jobs may seem like the end of the world to them & we see headlines about work place shootings popping up around the country. Purse snatchings, car jackings & car theft in general skyrocket. What used to be inner city crimes start to creep into the suburbs & the countryside in search of new victims. Pawn shops are busting at the seems with inventory that has never been reclaimed out of pawn as they couldn’t repay the borrowed money. It is time you prepare for the possibility that we may not come out of this ‘recession’
the same way we went into it. Normalcy bias has created a massive wave of denial that will bring them to a shocking wake up call when this crime wave comes to their suburb home & their car they need to get to work isnt in the driveway when they wakeup. Establish your “Weak Dollar Insurance Policy” now in physical gold & silver bullion & begin to participate in the sound money debate that is being waged all around you. This economic misery will reinstate the personal accountability & resilience that once ran through the veins of Americans & it begins with taking your financial well being & as well as personal safety into your own hands again. By acquiring precious metals you will be able to ultimately insure your net worth from the massive dollar devaluation campaign the federal reserve is helplessly locked into now that they have announced the UNLIMITED QE3 $85 billion per month attack on the value of the dollar. This will systematically erode the purchasing power of the dollar every month & this will ensure that every single month the price of consumer goods we have taken for granted for so long will rise in cost which will ultimately wipe out your disposable income if you arent hedged against this inflation. All while other nations of the world will be forced to protect their much needed export markets by simultaneously devaluing their currencies which will lead to rising cost of everything around the world. This will now pit US consumers against consumers of the world in a race to acquire the needed goods before the price rises take them out of reach. This will create a never ending feedback loop that will add to the raging price appreciation problems as goods will be competed for by consumers racing to acquire them before the shelves are bare or the price is out of reach. Inflation can morph into hyperinflation when recessions are dismissed and shift into depressions. This scenario can see our current currency war degrade into nasty trade wars than can eventually degrade into real wars & we have enough of those already thanks to the ‘war on terror’. Remember that it is a far better strategy to PREPARE your portfolio than to attempt to REPAIR it once the damage has begun. Tick, tock.
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