Great write-up on Raising Kaine concerning the decreased crime statistics in Prince William County. Hmm. Could this mean that all the ‘lawlessness’ in the County is actually causing less of the serious types of lawlessness like murders? Maybe we should consider increasing our so we have less of the really bad crimes.

by: Lowell
homicide stats are out for 2007 (2006 in parentheses); let’s see how they look.     Alexandria: 6 (5) +1
     Arlington: 2 (4) -2
     Fairfax: 15 (20) -5
     Loudoun: 1 (3) -2
     Prince William: 9 (16) -7
Northern Virginia: 33 (48) -15

That’s right, total homicides were down sharply in northern Virginia in 2007 — including in the epicenter for anti-”illegal immigrant” sentiment, Prince William County.  According to the Washington Post, “Homicides declined in Prince William more sharply than anywhere else in the region.”OK, now, I’m not a statistical expert, but doesn’t this demonstrate an INVERSE correlation between (increased) immigration and (decreased) homicide?   Yet, if you listen to the overheated rhetoric of the anti-immigrant forces, you’d think there was a strong, even disastrous, positive correlation.  Well, as the headline says, so much for THAT theory!