{"id":11346,"date":"2011-09-20T17:42:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T21:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11346"},"modified":"2011-09-20T17:42:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T21:42:56","slug":"fbis-latest-figures-refute-myth-that-poverty-is-the-root-cause-of-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11346\/fbis-latest-figures-refute-myth-that-poverty-is-the-root-cause-of-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI&#8217;s Latest Figures Refute Myth That Poverty Is the Root Cause of Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two federal government reports released within the past week again refute the toxic, persistent myth that poverty is the root cause of crime.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Census Bureau <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/09\/13\/census-us-poverty-rate-swells-to-27-year-high-151-percent\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that the nation&#8217;s poverty level jumped from 14.3% in 2009 to 15.1% for 2010, the highest rate since we emerged from the Jimmy Carter hangover in 1983.\u00a0 The overall number of poor Americans rose to 46.2 million, the highest total since poverty estimates began 52 years ago.\u00a0 Those numbers justify Newt Gingrich&#8217;s observation that Barack Obama is the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2011\/08\/05\/gingrich_obama_most_effective_food_stamp_president_in_history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Food Stamp President<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now this week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about-us\/cjis\/ucr\/ucr\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that crime rates continued to plummet last year.\u00a0 Violent crime rates declined for the fourth consecutive year, while property crimes declined for the eighth consecutive year, even as the nation&#8217;s economic malaise deepened.\u00a0 Moreover, the lower crime rates occurred amid local budget reductions that have affected police departments.<\/p>\n<p>These statistics confirm the timeless reality that criminality is not some sort of involuntary act to which helpless souls are driven by economic adversity.\u00a0 Rather, criminality is a voluntary choice on the part of the culpable criminal.\u00a0 The latest data won&#8217;t stop the political left from repeating their discredited dogma, but the facts as usual refute them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two federal government reports released within the past week again refute the toxic, persistent myth that poverty is the root cause of crime. Last week, the Census Bureau announced that the nation&#8217;s poverty level jumped from 14.3% in 2009 to 15.1% for 2010, the highest rate since we emerged from the Jimmy Carter hangover in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1657,3050,1966,2098],"class_list":["post-11346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-crime","tag-crime-rate","tag-fbi","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11347,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions\/11347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}