Lies, more lies, and the Baltimore Mayor's Damned Statistics - Day 18
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."
February 28, 2006
The Baltimore Sun, as usual, reports on the issue framing it with respect to how O'Malley responds and painting it as an issue of mere politics w/o substance. First the newsworthy piece - The Baltimore City Council "approved the introduction of a resolution last night that would attempt to create a task force of academic experts to audit crime statistics."
Doug Donovan instead leads with "Mayor Martin O'Malley dismissed yesterday recent criticism of his crime-fighting record as part of a political smear campaign, comparing it to attacks leveled at Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election." Of course, the piece later acknowledges that the newsworthy aspect did not contain criticism of Martin for Maryland - "Most council members said they were certain that such a review . . . would erase doubts raised by O'Malley's critics." How a Baltimore City Council resolution is a political smear campaign is beyond me when most of the supporters figure it will actually help the Mayor.
Martin for Maryland also said that he wouldn't trust an FBI audit of the crime statistics because Bush has been President for six years (as if he actually cares about Baltimore). Of course, Martin states that his own internal audits not to be trusted and have not been influenced by politics.
For those that read the print edition, there's an online qualification (not sure what it means) - "City Council action on an audit of Baltimore's crime statistics was mischaracterized when this article was published in the print edition. The Sun regrets the error."
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 28, 2006
The Baltimore Sun, as usual, reports on the issue framing it with respect to how O'Malley responds and painting it as an issue of mere politics w/o substance. First the newsworthy piece - The Baltimore City Council "approved the introduction of a resolution last night that would attempt to create a task force of academic experts to audit crime statistics."
Doug Donovan instead leads with "Mayor Martin O'Malley dismissed yesterday recent criticism of his crime-fighting record as part of a political smear campaign, comparing it to attacks leveled at Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election." Of course, the piece later acknowledges that the newsworthy aspect did not contain criticism of Martin for Maryland - "Most council members said they were certain that such a review . . . would erase doubts raised by O'Malley's critics." How a Baltimore City Council resolution is a political smear campaign is beyond me when most of the supporters figure it will actually help the Mayor.
Martin for Maryland also said that he wouldn't trust an FBI audit of the crime statistics because Bush has been President for six years (as if he actually cares about Baltimore). Of course, Martin states that his own internal audits not to be trusted and have not been influenced by politics.
For those that read the print edition, there's an online qualification (not sure what it means) - "City Council action on an audit of Baltimore's crime statistics was mischaracterized when this article was published in the print edition. The Sun regrets the error."
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