telling rachel that our first book event was the end of last month in cambridge and i did it with john seabrook who is in new york writer who did a really wonderful new yorker piece about two years ago. he started the conversation by saying i was fascinated when i got into this to discover david wanted to be a writer and after 30 years he has finally written a literary nonfiction book. writers will do anything to procrastinate. including having an entirely different substantive career which i am here to talk about. so let's talk about what i spend those 30 years obsessing about. so we are a couple of weeks beyond the annual fall release of fbi crime numbers. i have a little bet with myself. i wrote the editorial copy for that before the fbi numbers came out and i was exactly right as it turned out. news was good. despite the recession and everything else people thought they were going to drive the numbers higher once again in 2010, we had another decline. the homicide rate for the country came down another 4%. that is another pearl in a string of very good national years. violent crime rate is

telling rachel that our first book even was the end of last month in cambridge, and i did it with john seabrook who actually is a new york writer and who did a really been wonderful new york piece about this stuff about two and a half years ago and john started the conversation by saying i was fascinated when i got into this to discover that gave it meant to be a writer and now after about 30 years he has written a letter and nonfiction book. writers will do anything to procrastinate including having an entirely different career, which is what i'm actually here to talk about. so, let's talk about what i've spent those 30 years of assessing about. so, we are a couple of weeks beyond the annual fall release of the fbi and i had a little bit with myself. i had the editorial copy for that before the fbi numbers came in and i was exactly right as it turned out. so, the news was good despite the recession and everything else the people fought were going to drive the numbers higher. once again in 2010 we had another decline in one of the crime, state rates for the country came down another 4%. that is