Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Gaming the UK Crime Rate

The results are in from a special investigation by Paul Gallant, Alan J. Chwick, Sherry Gallant, and Joanne D. Eisen. [More]

2 comments:

Lisa researching gun rights said...

So many people try to use the UK as their main argument about how "gun control works", but if the police aren't reporting accurate crime data, their argument is invalid anyway.

Ed said...

Retired Chief Detective Inspector stated "“The academics call this ‘gaming’ but police officers would call it fiddling the figures, massaging the books or, the current favourite term, ‘good housekeeping’."

Gee. Since performance bonuses were involved, shouldn't it be justly called "fraud"?