Crime News

Hard to pin down real national crime statistics

I foolishly thought I could Google “national crime statistics” and easily find some useful, meaningful national crime statistics. But I kept digging and finally came to a site called “2008 Crime in the United States,” located on the FBI’s website. Even there, you need to click through a lot of links to find this now-out-dated information.

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Several states want laws to execute child molesters — what do you think?

Several states, including where I live, Missouri, are passing or considering laws that would make raping a child under the age of X a capital crime and call for the death penalty to those convicted of such child rapes.

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