From the Files of a Security Expert Witness

Appendix

A Fair Warning: Avoid Victimization

Readers should carry away a fair understanding of how crime impacts our society in general, and, more importantly, its devastating (if not fatal) effect on victims and their loved ones. Let’s look at crime this way: there’s a lot of it, and every crime has at least one victim.

What does this mean? Table A.1 shows part of the data published by the U.S. Department of Justice every year in a vast annual study titled “Crime in the United States.” The data is condensed into what is referred to as the “crime clock.”

Table A.1

Data from the “Crime Clock”

Every	Crime
22.2 seconds	One violent crime
30.9 minutes	One murder
5.7 minutes	One forcible rape
1.2 minutes	One robbery
36.6 seconds	One aggravated ...