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    April 01, 1999

    Wisconsin Lawyer April 1999: Figuratively Speaking

    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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