Not sure why, but a good thing

Rico says his friend Kelley sends along this good news from The Daily Beast via CNN:

Despite the tough economic times, violent crime continues to fall. New statistics released by the Justice Department show that violent crime fell thirte percent in 2010. Crime has been falling for several years, but this last drop is about three times as great as the annual declines for the last nine years. The Justice Department attributed much of the decline to a sharp drop in the number of simple assaults. The survey, done by telephone, does not include murder. It does include rape, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault. Almost two-thirds of the violent crimes counted by the survey were simple assaults in which the victim was not injured. Criminologists have repeatedly said in recent years that the declining figures are surprising, inasmuch as crime has historically increased in times of economic stress.

Rico says it's not, alas, because people are shooting more criminals, but something more subtle...