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Feature Article Writing 3

 



                This is the final lead writing practice I had before actually writing an Article based on the information that I gathered from a student which I will be speaking about in the next 2 blogs.



  1. Burglars are only to blame themselves for being caught.

A study by a lieutenant has shown that more than 50 percent of burglars are in jail due to their own foolishness. 

Lt. James Robbins of your city's police department has made a study of everyone convicted of robbery in your city during the last year. He has written up a 19-page report. The police were looking for answers—anything that might help them detect or prevent crimes. Robbins surveyed a total of 250 people, including jail inmates. He also interviewed people from other police departments, the sheriff's department, the district attorney's office and the Probation and Parole Commission. He questioned people on how their agencies deal with burglaries and on their opinions of the characteristics of burglary suspects. The inmates he interviewed said they burglarized homes most often to get "quick and easy money," the report says. It adds that, "There was a significant amount of input which indicated that the money was to be used to support a drug or alcohol problem." Robbins also found that 95 percent of home burglars are men, most have less than a high school education, and most are between 14 and 23 in age, have no job and live in the neighborhood they burglarize. The average residential burglar was caught after robbing 28 houses. The report adds that: "almost half were caught because of dumb luck. They made a stupid mistake, like breaking into a house when the residents were there and had a gun. Or, they did something that made it easy to find them, like making a lot of noise, so the neighbors heard them, or using their real names while selling a piece of merchandise that was easy to identify. Others were caught for traffic violations, like speeding, and had everything they'd stolen piled up in plain sight in the back seat. No more than a third were caught because of good police work." 


This final lead is basically informative as it is just giving statistics and hoping to hook the reader on why burglars are to only blame themselves.

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