Lies, more lies, and the Baltimore Mayor's damned statistics - Day 2

"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?" Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley replies: "I would say we're somewhere north of a 9.8."

February 12, 2006
The Washington Post picks up on the story in a short piece on the misleading crime statistics entitled, "O'Malley Downplays Questions on Crime Statistics". They includes a great quote by O'Malley, "No one's ever come forward with reams of crime reports that were dropped in a dumpster or anything like that."