Politically Incorrect Statistics - Does Public-Transit Result in a Crime Boom?(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Politically Incorrect Statistics - Does Public-Transit Result in a Crime Boom?
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/could-a-public-transit-boom-result-in-a-crime-boom/
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It sounds like this isn't a crime boom so much as a crime redistribution. Instead of ripping off their local 7-11, bored urban teens are going for higher-value goods from suburban malls up the line.
And could we cut it out with the blind use of 'Politically Incorrect'? It's a usage that degrades the intelligence of everyone who sees it; it's an emotionally loaded term that brings a raft of irrelevant anger with it.