Thursday, July 24, 2008

Italy Has Undeserved Crime Reputation. EU and US Look to Thine Selves!!!!!!!

The ANNOTICO Report

 

This is a follow up to the rather ignoramus column "Winners at Cannes are hits in Italy too" written by Christine Spolar's, in the Chicago Tribune, "Italy Fights Crime" July 7.  and responded to by Rosario A. Iaconis of the Italic Institute."Italy Fights Crime" on July 13, and Reported by me on July 18,

 

Now Chuck Goudie on July 21, in the Chicago Daily Herald displayed his limited Arkie Intellect that once again Rosario A. Iaconis responded to on July 23.

 

Before I give you Rosario's response, allow me to repeat just a couple of paragraphs of my previous Report.

"The FBI  reported that in 2006 there are almost 30,000 gangs, 800,000 members in the USA,,

There are 15,000 Gang related deaths each year in the USA.

Incidentally, in Chicago from January - March, there were 87 killings through the first three months, down from 88 this time last year.  

 

Goudie's Column Repeats Stereotypes

 

Letters to Editor

Chicago Daily Herald

July 23,2008

Chuck Goudie's conflation of fact and fiction regarding Italy's crime problem smacks of a hoary stereotype (June 21).

While it is indeed true that the Italian government has deployed 2,500 soldiers to patrol its cities, such a sinewy approach to street crime - much of it perpetrated by illegal third world immigrants - does not signify that the land John Milton called "the seat of civilization" has morphed into a peninsular Gotham City.

In truth, il bel Paese remains one of the EU's low-crime nations.

According to three unimpeachable sources - the United Nations; the International Crime Victims Survey; and the U.S. Department of Justice - Italy's murder rate of 1.2 per 100,000 inhabitants is significantly lower than the EU average of 2.8 per 100,000.

England and Wales, Canada and New Zealand are all more murderous countries.

As for the good old USA, it may well be the murder capital of industrialized nations. Even the statistics-averse Mark Twain would agree that Mr. Goudie's take on Italy is more than a bit simplistic.

Rosario A. Iaconis, Vice Chairman, The Italic Institute of America, Mineola, N.Y.

 

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