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Charles L. Cotton wrote:

Rrash wrote:I notice it spiked considerably in 2013. Just curious, are many of these convictions tied to one offender? There seems to be a large number of sexual assault with a child and child indecency convictions, for example. All in all, it's an astoundingly small number, but I could see Bloomberg saying that crime stats among CHL's almost doubled over the last 2 years, for example.

With the miniscule number of CHL convictions, even small increases represent a large change in terms of percentage. Total CHL crimes went up by only 38, while the total number of CHLs increased by 123,198! As you noted, one person could account for more than one crime, but that information is not available.

Chas.

I thought about the increase in CHL's as well. In theory, as this number grows, we should expect more convictions. With the number of transplants moving to Texas, I would think that the increase in overall population should keep the percentages of non-CHL to CHL intact, meaning that we should continue to see somewhere around .2% conviction rates on average, which is where it is when you look at the last few years combined. No worries, I was just trying to make sense of the spike.

I notice it spiked considerably in 2013. Just curious, are many of these convictions tied to one offender? There seems to be a large number of sexual assault with a child and child indecency convictions, for example. All in all, it's an astoundingly small number, but I could see Bloomberg saying that crime stats among CHL's almost doubled over the last 2 years, for example.