Lies, more lies, and the Baltimore Mayor's Damned Statistics - Day 21

An ongoing compilation of the coverage of Mayor 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."

March 3, 2006
Not much on the issue today, but an interesting reference is a tangentially related article in the Baltimore Messenger by Brandon Dudley. The article talks about how Mount Washington is being proactive to keep crime down at a time they have experienced "sizable drops in burglaries and larcenies from vehicles in 2005, and only a slight increase in robberies and stolen cars." (Of course, this is based on Martin for Maryland's police statistics). Notably, Dudley writes "though crime is down, and Mt. Washington has a low crime rate in general, police are still concerned about the statistics. 'That's still a decent number of (crimes),' [Northern District Community Liasion Officer Doug] Gibson said. 'That's still a little problem up there.'"