tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post4418887473515684608..comments2024-02-24T05:11:30.646-06:00Comments on The Director's Desk: Down timeTom Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03188041481309059441noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-29013842045189106452007-12-12T19:04:00.000-06:002007-12-12T19:04:00.000-06:00Its amazing how police and penguins are much alike...Its amazing how police and penguins are much alike.<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://www.penguinscience.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-23967968411696319402007-12-12T11:25:00.000-06:002007-12-12T11:25:00.000-06:00That is a handy site, with the caveat that, as usu...That is a handy site, with the caveat that, as usual with any crime rate stats, the murder rates and possibly the auto theft rates are the only rates you can fully trust, as you've addressed before. When the murder rate goes up, the reliability of the larceny, rape, residential burglary, and residential robbery rates all go down. <BR/><BR/>The other crimes happen, of course, and usually with proportional frequency, but it seems to be the general rule that when a city's murder rate is high, a lot of those other crimes often aren't reported. The citizenry perhaps has less faith in law enforcement, or they possibly just accept being pummeled by crime to as "just the way things are".<BR/><BR/>If I wasn't so lazy, I'd like to see if one or more equations could be derived, into which you'd plug the murder rate, city population, demographics, and a few other critical items, and it would spit out the approximate actual rate of the other crimes, not the "these got reported" rates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-21022193471080789992007-12-12T06:06:00.000-06:002007-12-12T06:06:00.000-06:00By the way, the link that anonymous 3:10 embedded ...By the way, the link that anonymous 3:10 embedded in his/her comment is a good one. This is one of the nicer crime rate comparison sites I've seen. <BR/><BR/>I often need to obtain such comparisons, which I do by downloading the raw data from the FBI and cooking it myself in a series of spreadsheets. But for the simple task of comparing one city to another, this is hard to beat.Tom Casadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03188041481309059441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-29035633367950420252007-12-12T05:53:00.000-06:002007-12-12T05:53:00.000-06:00Thanks for all the therapy, I made it home Tuesday...Thanks for all the therapy, I made it home Tuesday PM. Didn't seem that bad here, but I guess they still had the backlog from Monday to clear out on a limited number of flights.Tom Casadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03188041481309059441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-51849182392199996692007-12-12T03:10:00.000-06:002007-12-12T03:10:00.000-06:00Look at the bright side to being stuck in Detroit ...Look at the bright side to being stuck in Detroit - that you're on your way out of town, and don't live there! You could do some stats digging and marvel at the <A HREF="http://www.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=detroit&s1=MI&c2=Livonia&s2=MI" REL="nofollow">difference in crime rates</A> between Detroit and the nearly-adjacent town of Livonia, less than 20 miles away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-62248381875643530262007-12-11T22:09:00.000-06:002007-12-11T22:09:00.000-06:00Chief you are not depressed, don't worry about Aug...Chief you are not depressed, don't worry about August, just relax. When in an airport, any airport, read to relax and escape. I suggest Louis L'Amour. Don't judge, just try him.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06493210915517453562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-12641696011178468292007-12-11T16:07:00.000-06:002007-12-11T16:07:00.000-06:00..he'd only be on suicide watch if he ws sitting i.....he'd only be on suicide watch if he ws sitting in an airport and <B>didn't</B> have access to the internet.. Besides, it's not August.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-90636967658701986602007-12-11T15:55:00.000-06:002007-12-11T15:55:00.000-06:00The Detroit airport IS pretty nice - I like the co...The Detroit airport IS pretty nice - I like the connecting tunnel with the light and music show. I was stuck there for 26 hours last Feb., so am glad it was the Detroit airport and not somewhere else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-86192013244569300202007-12-11T14:20:00.001-06:002007-12-11T14:20:00.001-06:00Are you suggesting you be put on suicide watch?Are you suggesting you be put on suicide watch?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-42705156491696841352007-12-11T14:20:00.000-06:002007-12-11T14:20:00.000-06:00good luck chief!at least you're out of o'hare, the...good luck chief!<BR/>at least you're out of o'hare, the pits of airports!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com