Interesting statistics I found when browsing the CHL website

[Charles L. Cotton]

Sorry for the delay in presenting this folks, but it had to be distributed to some people first. As I stated earlier, the data shows the CHL program continues to be a huge success. CHLs have proven themselves to be responsible and law-abiding and the public deserves to know that the unscrupulous scare tactics used by opponents of campus-carry are refuted by clear and convincing evidence.

An Excel spreadsheet showing the data related to convictions of Texas CHLs and the general population in Texas over age 21 years is attached. All of this work was done by a UT engineering student who worked for me this summer. As you can see, she did a tremendous job putting this together. Just getting accurate population numbers for people age 21 yrs. and over wasn’t easy. Not only did she do all of the research, she chose the presentation method and put it all together. We all owe her our appreciation, as this data will be used extensively from now through the 2009 Legislative Session. Thanks Allison! (BTW, she’s the baby sister of one of our TexasCHLforum members.)

The data is presented in three different formats for both CHLs and the general population; Convictions Per 100,000; Total Convictions; and Percentage of Convictions (% of target population). There is a separate page showing the population by age group.

To most folks, the crimes per 100,000 is the most meaningful and easiest to use for comparison. There are a lot of people who don’t appreciate that a difference of one, two or three decimal places in a comparison is absolutely huge, so that’s why crimes per 100,000 is the most commonly used presentation method.

The DPS conviction reports set out on their website are presented in detail, but without a summary to aid review. The attached spreadsheets have both a summary sheet categorized for related crimes, as well as all of the individual detailed crimes set out on the DPS reports. This presentation format was chosen to aid review and comparison, while making it possible to verify that every crime reported by DPS is included in this spreadsheet.

Here are some examples of what the data shows for the calendar year 2006:

In 2006, there were 258,162 active CHLs, but only 140 total convictions.

Overall - The general population over age 21 is over 7 times as likely to commit any offense listed by DPS as are CHLs

Assault - The general population over age 21 is over 8 times as likely to commit an assault as are CHLs

Burglary - The general population over age 21 is over 38 times as likely to commit a burglary as are CHLs

Prohibited Weapons - The general population over age 21 is over 21 times as likely to be convicted of possessing prohibited weapons as are CHLs

Robbery - The general population over age 21 is over 63 times as likely to commit a robbery as are CHLs

I will not publish the data I have, but the track record of CHLs' is much better than that of law enforcement.

Thanks again Allison! If you folks would like to say thanks to Allison for all of her work researching an presenting this information, you can email her at Allison@TexasShooting.com

Chas.

[WildBill]

Thanks to Charles and Allison. I will peruse it this evening.

[anygunanywhere]

I will not publish the data I have, but the track record of CHLs' is much better than that of law enforcement.

Chas.

Will the data slip out over iced teas with a slice of lemon?

Anygunanywhere