Figuratively Speaking
Percentage of juveniles arrested in the U.S. who admitted to having
stolen at least one gun:
25
Percentage of teenage deaths attributed to firearms in the U.S.:
25
Number of juvenile handgun murders in the U.S. in 1984:
358
Number of juvenile handgun murders in the U.S. in 1994:
1,856
Source: Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 17,
No. 1, October 1998
Estimated cost to taxpayers of health care fraud each year:
$100 billion
Estimated loss to U.S. businesses each year as a result of software
piracy:
$2.3 billion
Source: American Criminal Law Review, Vol.
35, No. 3, Spring 1998
Model year in which the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) made air bags mandatory in all vehicles:
1998
Number of passengers and drivers killed by air bags as of 1997:
85
Number of lives saved by airbags, according to the NHTSA:
1,100
Percentage by which they have reduced traffic fatalities:
11
Source: Case Western Reserve Law Review,
Vol. 48, No. 3, Spring 1998
Percentage of Americans who believe they no longer have control over
the distribution of their personal information:
80
Source: Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 8,
No. 4, October 1998
Number of appeals that U.S. federal circuit courts received in
1950:
2,830
In 1990, the number of these appeals filed:
41,000
Projected number of appeals that will face federal courts in the year
2000:
90,114
Projected number that will be filed in the year 2010:
198,147
Projected number that will be filed in 2020:
428,203
Source: SMU Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 2,
January-February 1997
Number of people over age 65 who were used as volunteers by the FBI
during 1997 and 1998 to aid in the crackdown of telephone scams:
670
Number of potential victims who were warned by these volunteers:
8,600
Since 1995, the number of hours of telephone marketing scam pitches
that have been recorded by the volunteers working for the FBI:
2,000
Number of individuals who have been charged or indicted for their
involvement in these phone scams:
1,400
Source: Christian Science Monitor, Vol. 90,
No. 164, July 20, 1998
Number by which welfare rolls in the U.S. have declined since
1990:
5 million
Source: Administrative Law Review, Vol. 50,
No. 3, Summer 1998
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