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Wednesday, September 2,1992
Violent crime statistics rise in Texas, nation
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — U.S. Attorney General
William P. Barr said Tuesday the nation must
strengthen its law enforcement efforts and re
align its social programs to address growing
crime statistics.
"The issue of violent crime has reached a
critical juncture in this country/' Barr told
members of The Houston Club and later Har
ris County officials who led him on a tour of
the county's year-old jail.
"Of those countries that keep records of vi
olent crimes, the United States ranks No. 1 and
Texas is one of the highest in the country/'
Barr said.
Statistics released last week showed the
number of violent crimes in the nation rose 3.6
percent during 1991, while in Texas the num
ber increased by 10.3 percent, Barr said.
While politicians traditionallv have ad
dressed rising crime by either beefing up law
enforcement or expanding social programs.
Barr said, "I think we need both approaches.”
"For the last 25 years, we have been ad
dressing the root causes of crime” by spending
money on social programs, Barr said. Since
then, "we've spent $290 billion just for the
anti-poverty programs. That's $3,111 for every
taxpayer." And, he said, that does not include
any job training programs or other social im
provement services.
"What good is it to build public housing
and have it taken over as stash houses?" Barr
said. "It was once said 'poverty causes crime'
. . today, I think crime causes poverty."
Instead, he praised states' efforts to build
more jails, strengthen sentencing laws and
curb recidivism of "chronic offenders and ca
reer criminals."
who he said were responsible for 80 to 90
percent of the nation's violent crime.
"Our primary goal is to identify and inca
pacitate that long-term criminal," Barr said.
"That is the only approach that has any effect
on crime."
Barr praised programs like the federal "trig-
gerlock" project that imposes federal firearms
charges and standardized jail terms against
criminals who use guns and violent weapons
to commit state crimes.
Barr presented U.S. Attorney Ronald
Woods with a plaque commending the south
ern district, which includes Houston, for bring
ing 194 triggerlock cases against criminals
since the program began in April 1991. The
Houston-based district total represented the
fifth-highest number of cases in the nation.
The district that includes San Antonio
topped the nation with 271 cases. Dallas
ranked third with 210. Nationwide, federal
prosecutors have brought 6,400 such cases
since the program began.
Barr was continuing on to San Antonio late
Tuesday to present a similar plaque to law en
forcement officers there.
Summertime losses force fares skyward
Airlines plan to avoid affecting travel
patterns with gradual price increases
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Air fares are on
the rise again as discounts expire
and airlines raise ticket prices
with hopes of ending the heavy
losses sustained in summertime
price wars.
But with fewer people travel
ing, the increases might not stick,
airline analysts said.
And even if they do, it will
take more than higher fares to
make the industry profitable
again, they said.
On Tuesday, a first round of
fall price discounting expired, in
creasing fares within the conti
nental United States by about 30
percent.
A second round of discount
ing, which started when North
west Airlines issued coupons for
$35 to $50 off, expires Saturday.
On the same day, most airlines
will also raise prices by $10 to $40,
depending on the market, in a
round of increases initiated by
Continental Airlines.
United Airlines and USAir
however, will be raising fares by
about $10 to $30.
"The increases peg domestic
fares to a mileage table so that in
every case the fare paid bears a
direct relationship to the distance
traveled," said David Messing, a
spokesman with .Continental.
"We're intent on fere levels once
again matching cost."
Transcontinental fare increases
will generally be greater. For most
of the industry, the regular 14-day
advance purchase for a New
York-Los Angeles round-trip,
purchase, for example, will jump
from $390 to $490. TTie United and
USAir fares will increase to $470.
"The intent is to return to a sit
uation whereby the cheapest
round trip equals the one-way no
advance purchase full-coacb
fare," said Neil Monroe,
spokesman for Delta Airlines.
The fare increase pushed up
airline stocks Tuesday. AMR
Corp., the'parent of American,
rose $1,871/2 to $57,371/2; Delta
rose $2,371/2 to $52,371/2; and
UAL Corp. rose $3,371/2 to
$107.50.
The raises bring fares back up
to the levels they were on April
13, when a fare overhaul initiated
by American went into effect.
Under that system, fares for
leisure travel stayed the same or
rose, but fares for last-minute
travelers, usually business people,
dropped.
Since then, summer price wars
have eaten into airline revenues.
Although the discounting
helped raise airplane loads from
68 percent in July 1991 to 73 per
cent in July, the industry still lost
$668 million in the first six
months of 1992, according to the
Air Transport Association. That
follows losses of $2.4 billion and
$1.6 billion in 1990 and 1991 re
spectively.
And the third-quarter, usually
the airlines' most profitable, is ex
pected to show more losses, said
George James, chairman of Air
line Economics Inc.
"We've had discounts on top
of discounts," said American
spokesman Tim Smith. "They've
made no economic sense."
James said that the new fares
represent,"a recognition by all
carriers that they have to move to
a sensible fare structure related
more to mileage and to cost."
Analysts speculated, however.
the fare increases might not be
around long.
Several times this summer car
riers tried to raise fares by up to
33 percent but each time plans
failed because one airline or an
other chose not to match the in
creases, said Tom Parons, editor
of Best Fares Discount Magazine.
With the latest increase, all the
major airlines have raised fares.
But since not as many people
are flying as had been hoped, it's
more likely that airlines would
cut prices rather than raise them,
said Daniel Kasper, an airline ana
lyst with the Boston consulting
firm, Harbridge House.
"I'm not sure we're through
with discounting for the year,"
Kasper said.
Part of the problem is that peo
ple who might have traveled in
the fall months pushed up travel
to the summer to take advantage
of the low fares, Kasper said. So,
in the already slower fall months,
traffic could be even less.
And its not just price increases
that will make the airlines prof
itable, Kasper said.
U.S. economic conditions need
to improve to get people traveling
again, and the number of airlines
operating will have to shrink, he
said.
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