photogpat wrote:http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_20953465/pioneer-press-investigation-st-paul-gun-incident-reports.v6
I call schnanegans on their reporting method and math skills. From the article...
The Pioneer Press looked at two categories of reports for police service in St. Paul -- "shots fired" and aggravated assaults with guns. The numbers don't speak to whether police found evidence that a crime took place.
For shots fired, especially, police say they check out every report, but can't always verify whether the sound someone heard was a gun fired vs. a car backfiring, firecrackers or something else.
So no evidence of a crime, and it includes numbers that may not even be gun fire.
Plus, any increase has an easy explanation... when Mpls turns up the heat, where do the thugs go?
Living in St Paul I looked at the incidents that were reported within a block or so of my home..
...all they were was reports, and I don't recall hearing of any of them previously.
What I have observed is an increase of fireworks- many of them aerial displays with a report, that, if you hadn't seen it, one might mistake it for gunfire.
Another observation, the city, police dept, and media bend over backwards to assert how safe the city is and how ever-decreasing the various rates of crime are....something I personally write off to underreporting.
So to bring attention to increased 'gun violence' is a bit odd, at best.
