Lies, more lies, and the Baltimore Mayor's Damned Statistics - Day 6
An ongoing compilation of the coverage of O'Malley's use of false/misleading crime statistics.
"On a scale of one to 10 -- . . . 10 being the best -- how would you characterize the accuracy of the city's crime reporting since 2000? "Mayor Martin O'Malley replies: "I would say we're somewhere north of a 9.8."
February 16, 2006
The Baltimore Sun (Andrew Green collaborates with Doug Donovan on this one) reports on the story with a political angle with a story entitled, Duncan Backs MD Crime Audit. Why does the Sun focus primarily on what the politicians think about this as opposed to doing some investigative reporting ala Jayne Miller at WBAL-TV?
In any case, the Sun rips quotes from the Washington Post piece and reports that mostly Washington-area legislators (but also two Baltimore based legislators) announced that they would introduce a bill requiring a state-wide audit of crime statistics. Instead of going along with the study already started by the Governor (which brought their attention to the issue), these legislators politicize the issue and announce one of their own. This now provides the political cover for the Sun to report that "officials from most of the five jurisdictions subject to [the Governor's] study have said they will not participate." Yes, it is so much better to include in the study the crime statistics in Kent County (pop. 19,197), Somerset County (pop. 24, 747), Caroline County (pop. 29,772), Garrett County (pop. 29,846), Dorchester County (pop. 30, 674), Talbot County (pop. 33,812), and Queen Anne's County (pop. 40,563). (Population figures from Year 2000 obtained here). What a waste of resources this Democrat study is and they are called the Governor's study politically motivated?!
The article lets the Governor respond to allegations that his study was politically motivated, ""Next I guess I'll get blamed for the WBAL reports the last couple of days." The Sun then describes the WBAL reports this way: "WBAL-TV has reported a handful of incidents of questionable crime reporting and quoted Baltimore Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm as saying that police officers are permitted to not report serious crimes, including shootings, if victims do not cooperate. "
The Baltimore Sun made no mention of the WBAL-TV report about the discrepancy in the homicide numbers! Why? Homicide numbers by the State Medical Examiner's Office are backed by medical science and cannot be refuted. Yet the Sun refuses to even reference this discrepancy reported by WBAL-TV. O'Malley certainly has not come up with an answer for it.
"On a scale of one to 10 -- . . . 10 being the best -- how would you characterize the accuracy of the city's crime reporting since 2000? "Mayor Martin O'Malley replies: "I would say we're somewhere north of a 9.8."
February 16, 2006
The Baltimore Sun (Andrew Green collaborates with Doug Donovan on this one) reports on the story with a political angle with a story entitled, Duncan Backs MD Crime Audit. Why does the Sun focus primarily on what the politicians think about this as opposed to doing some investigative reporting ala Jayne Miller at WBAL-TV?
In any case, the Sun rips quotes from the Washington Post piece and reports that mostly Washington-area legislators (but also two Baltimore based legislators) announced that they would introduce a bill requiring a state-wide audit of crime statistics. Instead of going along with the study already started by the Governor (which brought their attention to the issue), these legislators politicize the issue and announce one of their own. This now provides the political cover for the Sun to report that "officials from most of the five jurisdictions subject to [the Governor's] study have said they will not participate." Yes, it is so much better to include in the study the crime statistics in Kent County (pop. 19,197), Somerset County (pop. 24, 747), Caroline County (pop. 29,772), Garrett County (pop. 29,846), Dorchester County (pop. 30, 674), Talbot County (pop. 33,812), and Queen Anne's County (pop. 40,563). (Population figures from Year 2000 obtained here). What a waste of resources this Democrat study is and they are called the Governor's study politically motivated?!
The article lets the Governor respond to allegations that his study was politically motivated, ""Next I guess I'll get blamed for the WBAL reports the last couple of days." The Sun then describes the WBAL reports this way: "WBAL-TV has reported a handful of incidents of questionable crime reporting and quoted Baltimore Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm as saying that police officers are permitted to not report serious crimes, including shootings, if victims do not cooperate. "
The Baltimore Sun made no mention of the WBAL-TV report about the discrepancy in the homicide numbers! Why? Homicide numbers by the State Medical Examiner's Office are backed by medical science and cannot be refuted. Yet the Sun refuses to even reference this discrepancy reported by WBAL-TV. O'Malley certainly has not come up with an answer for it.
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