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- Aug. 21, 1989: The States Pay The Price
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 21, 1989 How Bush Decides
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- NATION, Page 25
- The States Pay the Price
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- <p> Two government reports issued separately last week seemed
- to illustrate a cause and an effect. The FBI reported that
- violent crimes in the U.S. last year jumped 6% over 1987,
- reaching a record of nearly 1.6 million offenses. The National
- Conference of State Legislatures, meanwhile, said the largest
- increase in state spending in the same period was for prisons,
- which grew 14.1%.
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- <p> The increase in crime included a 2.9% spurt in homicides,
- to a new high of 20,675. More than half the victims either knew
- or were related to their killers; only 12% were slain by
- strangers. Washington had a horrendous murder rate of 59.5 per
- 100,000 people, more than seven times the national average.
- Atlanta was the most crime-ridden city in the U.S. For all types
- of crimes, including thefts and arson, Atlanta led Fort Worth,
- Dallas, Seattle and St. Louis in the top five. Much maligned New
- York City was 15th in its overall crime rate and tenth in the
- homicide rate. No FBI figures were available for Miami, but
- statistics from local police indicated that the city apparently
- had the fifth highest murder rate and the fourth worst general
- crime record.
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