It costs us a lot of money to feel safer. We are always being told that we are safer and that crime is down. PBSO even reports that to the city. Technically they are correct...overall, crime is down by 0.8 percent here in Lake Worth based on the categories that were reported in the Post's article. What we are not told is that statistic involves basically two crime categories: robbery and aggravated assault, down 19% and 12.6% respectively, which skews the entire crime category percentages with the remaining crimes listed below. Read about it here.
Crimes in Lake Worth are up for--
Forcible rape...75%
Burglary...0.8%
Larceny...6.1%
Vehicle theft...7.8%
Murder is at 2 cases, the same as last year.
The Post reported that Lake Worth has had 1,042 crime cases this year compared to 1,034 for 2010.
As the holidays approach, crimes will escalate. Crimes for week ending November 16, some of which are not included in the above report.
Theft 14
Proactive Policing 8
Pedestrian Stop 8
Vehicle Recovery 2
Robbery 5
Quality of Life 22
Drugs 13
Disorder 7
Liquor 2
Property Crime 5
Property Crime 5
Other 44
Death 2
Family Offense 14
Weapons Offense 2
Alarm 5
Other 21
Assault 13
Assault 13
Traffic 23
We all feel safer though.
The new trend of the Palm Beach Post seems to be"No comments on this atricle".The views of their readers don't seem to matter much any more. I guess that Randy Schultz got tired of always being told off by a majority of readers that don't share his views.More importantly ,maybe a majority of readers are dropping the Post because WE ARE TIRED OF BEING TOLD OFF BY SCHULTZ,WHOM WE DON'T AGREE WITH !!!!!!
ReplyDeleteNot only that, it is not fair and balanced.
ReplyDeleteToday, there were 16 pages of classifieds that did NOT get printed at least in the paper I received. Can you imagine the calls they are getting from all of those who spent BIG BUCKS to advertise?