A great deal of police work is politics.
A great deal of police work is politics.
The fudging of the numbers is an enduring political behavior. We of course do the same thing in Afghanistan to paint the picture we want people to believe. This is one reason I'm strongly opposed to our over reliance on measures of effectiveness, it is just another vehicle for the brass to mislead the American people and Congress, which in turn provides more support for ill conceived policies and strategies. Until we as a nation learn to value the truth we will not effectively evolve our approaches to address serious security problems whether they be crime or insurgencies.
"over reliance on measures of effectiveness" is a great phrase.
If you torture statistics enough they will tell you whatever you want to hear.Originally Posted by Majormarginal
Last edited by Dayuhan; 09-06-2012 at 12:23 AM.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”
H.L. Mencken
Statistics don't lie to people.
People lie to people.
People lie to themselves.
Controversial Explanation
Adult Warning Label! this is considered controversial by many people but the research is supposedly top notch.
Link to University of Chicago explanation of the crime drop.
http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levi...alized2001.pdf
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