Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“One theme of The Wire, a series about the war on drugs in Baltimore, is the willingness of police department leaders to fake crime statistics. Despite a few flights of fancy, the drama prided itself on its realism. It turns out that in reality, too, police department bosses may be willing to rewrite crime statistics so things don’t seem as bad as they are.” (08/20/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/08/19/the-case-of-the-phony-stats/