Nucla, Colo. Passes Ordinance Making Gun Ownership Mandatory

[jimmy the one]

33. kennesaw's mayor lowballed, er, underreported

population 2003: Morton Grove 22,966 and Kennesaw 25,183
2003 actual crime figures comparison. --- Note small totals.
In 2003, Morton Grove had 2 murders and Kennesaw 1.
In 2003, Morton Grove had 4 robberies 7 in Kennesaw.
In 2003, Morton Grove had 12 aggravated assaults 15 in Kennesaw.
In 2003, Morton Grove had 70 burglaries 89 in Kennesaw.
In 2003, Morton Grove had 390 incidents of larcency and theft 455 in Kennesaw
http://progressivevalues.blogspot.com/2007/04/kennesaw-georgia-gun-violence-reduction.html

another source: (year after kennesaw law passed ~1982) - Burglaries in Kennesaw did not change significantly, while Morton Grove’s burglary rate fell by 4.5 burglaries per month. (See McDowall et al Criminology v29 p541-560 (1991). But at the time late 80's kennesaw had lower overall burg rate.
.. McDowall report: There is a curious discrepancy between the number of burglaries reported by Kennesaw’s mayor in interviews cited by Kleck (1988) and Schmidt (1987) and the number of burglaries reported by Kennesaw’s police department to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system.
The mayor claimed to Schmidt, for example, that there were 55 residential burglaries in 1981, before he law was passed. This is greater than the total number of all burglaries — residential and otherwise — reported by the police dept to the UCR. Given the mayor’s spirited advocacy of the ordinance and the apparent differences in the figures he provided we believe the UCR counts are the more accurate of the two.
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/01/16/kennesaw-gun-ordinance-yet-aga/

Note, mayor cited 55 kennesaw burgs ~1981/82, but from above link: In 2003, Morton Grove had 70 burglaries 89 in Kennesaw.