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[Kapohocat]

I dont know that my point of lower crime rate was made by finding the stats that seem to be most currently available on line, but crime in the last half of the nineties was higher by almost 25% than crime in the first half of the this decade. The population has increased by a significant percentage. (Someone will correct me I am sure but isnt it about 40% increase since 2000?). So the point is that although we in Puna have seen two incidents of violent crime in the last two weeks or so, the perception is that crime as increasing is not actually valid. It is actually decreasing. When Yvonne Mathison was murdered, many people said Domestic violence was increasing.... it wasn't - it stayed a constant %. The visibility was just very high as the person doing the blood analysis was the same as used by the OJ case.

Me - I too would rather live "dangerously" in Puna than drive the 5 Freeway in Cali, any day hands down.

-Cat