Take a math class Star Tribune!

Maybe someone can interpret this for me:

Star Tribune reporter Matt McKinney is reporting:

15 homicides aside, serious crime drops on North Side

Violent crime is still up on the North Side, but serious crime as a whole has fallen 3 percent there. Star Tribune

The article goes on to say:

The overall trend for violent crime -- rape, murder, robbery and aggravated assault -- shows a 10.2 percent increase in the Fourth Precinct, the name the police use for the North Side. But the area has seen sharp drops in burglary (down 21 percent), arson (down 37 percent) and rape (down 19 percent), and smaller numbers in those categories mean a drop in the total count of Part 1 crimes.

So if I read this correctly, homicides are up, rape, murder, robbery and aggravated assault -- shows a 10.2 percent increase in the Fourth Precinct but burglaries and rapes are down? Yes, rape is up and down.

I don't think I'll be moving there anytime soon! Especially since the fourth precinct had another homicide since this story came out.

Oh and Matt McKinney is the reporter who never ran our No Confidence Vote.