{"id":2132,"date":"2009-01-23T10:22:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T01:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2009-01-23T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T01:43:08","slug":"kirk-masden-on-nj-crime-down-for-three-years-yet-not-discussed-in-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2132","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Masden on NJ crime down for three years, yet not discussed in media."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. Word from Kirk Masden from The Community<\/a>, writing on a topic of import. Quoting in full, comment follows:<\/p>\n

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\n Dear friends, I was interested in Debito’s <\/strong><\/em>latest Newsletter<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. In it, he introduces another fear-mongering article in the Sankei:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

3) Sankei: manual to help NJ “illegal overstays” evade police
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\n<\/strong><\/em> https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2126
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\nThis article, in turn, refers briefly to the Sankei’s history of exaggerating the rise in “foreign crime”:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.debito.org\/thecommunity\/sankei050100.html
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\nWell, that reminded me of something I found in doing my class preparation for my annual lecture on “foreign crime” statistics (as in “lies, damn lies, and statistics” 101): non-Japanese crime numbers are substantially down for three years in a row (four, depending on how you count them) — despite increasing population!!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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See the statistics for yourself (in Japanese pdf files):<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.npa.go.jp\/sosikihanzai\/kokusaisousa\/kokusai5\/20a\/contents.htm
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\nParticularly <\/strong><\/em>http:\/\/www.npa.go.jp\/sosikihanzai\/kokusaisousa\/kokusai5\/20a\/3.pdf<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
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Interesting, isn’t it, that this hasn’t been discussed much in the press!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Kirk Masden, writing for <\/strong><\/em>The Community<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
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COMMENT<\/strong>: Quite. If crime had gone up, if history is any guide<\/a>, you definitely would have heard about it. \u00a0Instead, we get biased articles like the one in the Mainichi headlining that NJ crime fell in English, yet rose in Japanese<\/a>. The impact, as they admit, is different. So is zeroing in on them for being “unmannerly” and spoiling it for everyone<\/a>. \u00a0Who’s spoiling it for whom? \u00a0<\/p>\n

If you can’t say something nice… \u00a0say it in print, I guess. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NPA has released crime stats for NJ, and foreign crime is down again. For the third year in a row. Despite the unwavering increase in NJ population. But you wouldn’t know it by reading the media. You would have, however, if NJ crime had gone up, as past media campaigns have bent over backwards to report. So now we’ve got the media instead bending over backwards to bash NJ for being “unmannerly” and spoiling it for everyone. Who’s spoiling what for whom?, I daresay. Kirk Masden comments with a scan of the crime stat chart in this blog entry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}