New FBI Crime Stats Contradict Anti-Immigrant Hype in Arizona
By Daniel Griswold
FBI crime figures reported in today’s The Wall Street Journal challenge the perception that illegal immigrants have unleashed a crime wave in Arizona.
One of the clinching arguments for Arizona’s tough new law aimed at illegal immigration has been the perception in that state that crime has been rising, and that undocumented workers are largely to blame. Yet the Journal reports that the incidence of violent crime in Phoenix last year plunged 16.6 percent compared to 2008, a rate of decline that was three times the national average.
According to the Phoenix Police Department, the downward trend in crime has continued into 2010 even as the “illegal immigrant crime wave” story reverberates on cable TV and talk radio. As the Journal story reports:
In Phoenix, police spokesman Trent Crump said, “Despite all the hype, in every single reportable crime category, we’re significantly down.” Mr. Crump said Phoenix’s most recent data for 2010 indicated still lower crime. For the first quarter of 2010, violent crime was down 17% overall in the city, while homicides were down 38% and robberies 27%, compared with the same period in 2009.
Arizona’s major cities all registered declines. A perceived rise in crime is one reason often cited by proponents of a new law intended to crack down on illegal immigration. The number of kidnappings reported in Phoenix, which hit 368 in 2008, was also down, though police officials didn’t have exact figures.
The new crime figures confirm what I wrote in a column in today’s Washington Times under the headline, “Unfounded fear of immigrant crime grips Arizona,” and what I explored in a longer think piece, “Higher Immigration, Lower Crime,” in Commentary magazine a few months ago.
The president and Congress need to fix our immigration system, but we need to do it in the right way and for the right reasons.
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The entire Rhetoric of the Story is , in a quagmire, pure Hype.
The Story Line probably really read," As Illegals Exit our Cities, the crime rate is dropping astronomically....especially the Unheard of Kidnappings, Giving credence to the Passage OF THE MUCH NEEDED LAW TO ELIMINATE white collar crime as well as public PILFERING OF OUR STATE FUNDS, while guaranteeing crime to be prevented by our much appreciated policemen!"
The numbers speak of much needed attention to the bankrupting of taxpayers....each one of us is supporting these illegals kids, either through schooling costs, housing costs, food stamps, medicaid drain as in free medical and dental until they are 21 YEARS OLD, PLUS WE ARE PICKING UP A HUGE NUMBER OF THE LESS THAN 21 BABIES AS WELL. This is an astronomicl drain to the poor taxpayers who are getting anything free. Not to mention costs of Incarceration are out of the universe for these illegals...
What is infuriating is the Idea that EMployers who can only hire illegals do so AT THE COST OF THE ENTIRE US ECONOMIC SYSTEM BECAUSE THEY ARE CROOKS, NOT GOOD BUSINESSMEN. PURE GREED. PURE DEVILISH GREED. if you know one try to figure out how much he is costing all of us.
Please people, let's take a look at the orgainizations and people who are making the media rhetoric work for these illegal infiltrators: 1) ACLU...and their poofie glib positions. We need an American Version of such politicing, 2) The Southern Poverty Law Center...who keeps identifying only WHITES as HATE MONGERS ...HATE MONGERS of anything that is illegal ...we should add...3) Eric HoLder..head of the Justice department who knows that HE IS NOT DOING A THING TO PROTECT THE USA INTEREST IN THESE MATTERS...NOT HELPING ONE SINGLE AMERICAN CHILD'S FUTURE OVER THESE ILLEGALS. 4) AND THE LADY WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE PROTECTING OUR bORDER BUT CAN'T SEEM TO THINK HER WAY AROUND HER DESK, MUCH LESS USE HER BRAIN...DO I NEED TO MENTION HER NAME, JANET NAPOLITINO...JOKE APPOINTEE... ALONG WITH THE MOST HORRIBLE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST 5) NANCY PELOSI...THE WORST EXAMPLE OF AN AMERICAN WOMAN....I AM STILL WAITNG TO SEE NUDE PHOTOS OF HER IN A NASTY MAGAZINE....BECAUSE THATS WHERE SHE BELONGS WITH HER DERRIER UP IN THE AIR FOR EVERY MAN IN THE NATION TO SEE.
I AM A WHITE AMERICAN WOMAN OPPOSED TO THE CONTINUED TOLERANCE OF THESE ANTI-AMERICAN LAWS. WE ALL KNOW THAT WE HAVE ALLOWED THESE PEOPLE TO TWIST OUR LAWS EVERY WHICH WAY TO SERVE THEIR OWN PURPOSES INSTEAD OF PROTECTING, RESPECTING, AND TAKING CARE OF OUR OWN. It has nothing to do with Race...or LAnguage...it has to do with Crime, Our LAws, No Need for Sympathy...and absolute disgust with the NO-RESPONSIBILITY POSITION OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT.
So American Moms...what we can do is ask you to c all your local CongressmaN AND ASK THEM TO SPONSOR YOUR BILL WHICH SAYS THAT nO eLECTED oFFICIAL, INCLUDING THE pRESIDENT SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO USURP THE LAWS OF THE aMERICAN PEOPLE, THAT THEY CAN BE IMPEACHED IF THEIR TENDECY IS TO GO AWAY FROM THE INTENT OF THE LAWS THEY WERE AUTHORIZED TO UPHOLD.... And Secondly, that no Government Official, including the President ashall have the power to authorize unlimited access to our country by any illegal, for any reason, and that the American Voters ONLY shall detewrmine who gets Amnesty aaand ENtry into our Country. Let's hear it Moms! Tired of your husband working too many hours, not having money for insurance, see the Illegals kids getting the right healthcare when yours aren't? Tired of all the fraud and waste...tired of seeing your aging parents not get the help they deserve while some jerkie Black man Eric Holder snubs you with his trite and insolent, smart elick lawyery, can't be touche attitude instead of a respectful honorable man we should have in office??? Are you beginning to get the picture? they used to tar and feather thes epeople and now...it is apparent we have absolutely no say. But wait, DDO GO TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND ASK THEM TO SAY NO MORE AMNESTY LEGISLATION, NO MORE ERIC HOLDERS, NO MORE PELOSIS, NO MORE JANET NOIDIDNTDOATHINGO. TAKE CARE OF YOUR FAMILIES, BY SAYING NO TO THE LAW BREAKERS, THE EVIL TWISTED TONGUES OF THE ABOVE AND TO THOSE WHO THWART THE ROLE OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENS. NOW!
Intolerance for immigrants is something most Americans have always felt. But don't take my word for it, just pick up a history book and you'll see. Used, abused and then kicked to the curb, in this case deported. What fueled this bout with hate...a bad economy and the first black president....I think it was best said here:
iAnitaRaise April 05, 2010 at 7:23PM
That's what happens when you assume…..No one wanted the White House, they knew all that spending and backroom deals would come back and haunt them…..so, the brain storm was, give it to the brother.
And as Rush said, when he fails, we blame it on their perfect scapegoat….however shit didn't go down like they planned, the brother on the other hand turned out to be a thinking Bro and took them by surprise…hence the discord and ugliness all this has turned into.
did not just drop the racism argument did you? Are illegals here illegally? Yes. Is being here illegally illegal ? Yes. Why bring racism about Obama into it? THAT is a scapegoat.
all the Hispanic citizens, many who have been in AZ longer than the whites who are going to have to start carrying birth certificates and other extra documentation just to prove they are already citizens?
Would you be so easy about it if all whites had to do the same just because of their skin color?
And finally how many legal citizens are going to be harassed and illegally detained to fine one illegal? Or do the Hispanics give up their civil rights because of their skin color?
"Politicians should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we can identify their corporate sponsors" - Robin Williams
"If a drivers license isn't enough (which it would be if some moron hadn't pushed legislation to give drivers licenses to illegals) then yes. Make me show a social security card. Make me carry around a wallet sized birth certificate. Its not racist heathen no matter how much you want to pretend. We are a Nation of laws if anything. And if no longer that, then we're nothing at all. "
Your argument fails twice.
requiring all citizens to have an ID that would show their citizenship? What about requiring police to check the IDs of every person that they detain? Would you feel that you had to give up your civil rights then?
I believe that most people expect to have to show some ID when detained by police and I don't believe that they feel that their civil rights have been violated because they had to show an ID.