10 March 2003

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This, in my humble, non-academic opinion, is BOGUS. There is no way you can accurately state that "[m]ore than half of all violent crimes committed in the United States in 2000 were never reported to police" because there is no way of knowing what actually occurred. And if you are relying on some sort of self reporting (to counselors, SANE nurses, &cetera) how do you know how many reports were false or made into something they weren't by someone with an agenda.

I do think that they are probably correct that there are a huge number of assaults which are not reported. And they shouldn't be. Two drunk guys who walk out into the parking lot and give each other black eyes before they are seperated should not clog the system with their stupidity.

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