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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