More than 675,000 offenses weren't entered into Virginia criminal records... [More]Maybe we've been going at this the wrong way. Maybe the safest course would be to let the government keep a database of all gun owners.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Close Enough for Government Work
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“The Crime Commission study reflects the reality that criminal history records, like all records, are only as good as the data inputs,” said state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller. “Accurate decisions on firearms background checks, employment, and sentencing decisions, among many others, rely on the completeness of these records.”
-- Old lesson: Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO).
Also, SNAFU. Maybe FUBAR too.
Stamp's Statistical Probability: The government [is] extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases.
(Attributed to Sir Josiah Stamp, 1840-1941, H.M. collector of inland revenue.)
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