(January 10, 2025 at 7:18 pm)Silver Wrote: Crime statistics is just a political game for election and re-election.
Unfortunately that's true.
I remember several years ago the Japanese government announced with great fanfare that the number of road traffic deaths had fallen dramatically. This was touted as a great success, and reported in headline news.
Then about a week later an independent journalist with quite a small readership discovered that the government had simply changed its method of counting. Previously any traffic-caused injury resulting in death had been counted. But they changed it so that the death had to occur within 24 hours of the accident. And since of course people with no chance of survival can be kept "alive" indefinitely if they're hooked to machines, it's easy to keep some of the victims alive for 24 hours and ten minutes, so that they're not included in the statistics.
Pretty sneaky, but probably not unusual, with crime statistics as well.
