Tag: crime statistics

LAPD Struggles to Hire as Crime Is Up and Arrests Are Down

Crime is up in Los Angeles while the city’s police department (LAPD) struggles to recruit new officers, officials said at the July 19 police commissioners’ meeting. The data presented by LAPD Chief Michel Moore at the meeting compares numbers from the period between Jan. 1 to July 9 of this year to the same period…


False Statistics Used to Push New Laws, Deceive the Australian Public

Commentary How can Australians have trust in our institutions if governments can be hoodwinked into passing draconian legislation as a result of false, misleading statistics? Last year, debate over controversial sexual consent laws passing through the New South Wales (NSW) parliament was dominated by false statistics on sexual assault that wrongly claimed five times more…