WASHINGTON - Putting Sept. 11 into statistical context is challenging law enforcement record keepers, whose charts analyzing crime in the United States for 2000 are distorted by the events of that day.
For only the second time in 73 years, the FBI's statisticians are considering a new crime classification. That would prevent the dozens of kidnappings, thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in property damage stemming from the attacks from giving New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania aberrant crime rates.
"We're in the discussion process now to try and decide how to deal with all of the factors that came with those events: Is it homicide, property damage, kidnapping? Or will there be a separate report or category that relates to terrorist activity?" said Maryvictoria Pyne, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services.
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