as a master tounge in cheek poster...i am suprised you cant get these, not so subtle sublimal messages bob
He probably could if they were subliminal but the question then is, would you be able to send them............?
Back to the difference between the Procuraduria stats. & the El Nuevo Diario article. The Procuraduria stats. indicate that the number of violent deaths for Jan & Feb 2006 is
exactly the same as the number of violent deaths for Jan & Feb 2007 viz for the 2 months combined a total of 341 violent deaths each year or a rate of 22.48 per 100,000 inhabitants.
What they then do (eat your hearts out students of criminology

) is to
deduct the number of violent deaths at the hands of police in the carrying out of their duties. In Jan & Feb 2006 it was 35. In Jan & Feb 2007 it has gone up to 50. So by deducting this higher number of police homicides, it looks as if the total homicide rate has reduced. Next year if the baseline number of violent deaths remains the same and the police take out 100 in the course of their duties we will doubtless hear plaudits for a dramatically reduced violent death rate....................
Even if you allow the deduction of police killings in the line of work (& in the DR that might be statistically suspect) you still end up with a homicide rate of 20.18 per 100,000 population in 2006 and 19.19 in 2007. That is supposed to equal 33% reduction? :laugh:
And please don't lay this at the door of El Nuevo Diario because they were clearly reporting what they were told by the Attorney General. The same one who was out of the country when Fiscal Ceballos was killed in Sosua (but that wouldn't have featured in these stats because it was last November & the stats only compare the months of Jan & Feb each year).
Interestingly the report on President's website doesn't give figures & the Minister of the Interior, while feeling the situation is improving, is nowhere near so ........er.........exhuberant as the AG.
Presidencia Rep?blica Dominicana
Then there's always the question: are the Procuraduria stats. believeable? See for example
Entidad presenta estad?sticas indican baja de muertes violentas