About that title.
I'm not against real economists, the ones that do the observations, recognize the correlations, and do the math.
I'm against the fake corporate and think tank economists that get paid to conflate correlation and causation. I'm against those that have convinced people that financial benefit = morality.
Report Finds Atlanta Police Cut Figures on Crimes
By ARIEL HART
n audit of the Atlanta Police Department concluded that the department consistently underreported crimes for years. The audit, which was released yesterday, found evidence of both negligence and deliberate efforts to improve the city's image for tourism, possibly including the Summer Olympics in 1996.
The report, by the management consulting firm Linder & Associates, painted a picture of a department mired in disorganization and increasingly besieged by 911 calls, some of which never got a response.
"We've not seen this sense of a condition of being overwhelmed in any other major city," said John Linder, president of the consulting firm.
Auditors studied crime reports only from 2002, but shed light on previous years through interviews with more than 200 police officers and a confidential survey to which about two-thirds of officers responded. Atlanta residents were also interviewed and surveyed.
Several police officers told auditors that during the selection process for the 1996 Olympics "a concerted effort" was made to improve Atlanta's chances for selection by underreporting crime to the point of discarding incident reports and improperly closing cases. Their claims have not been verified.
Nearly half the officers who responded to the survey said they believed that crime reports were routinely changed to downgrade incidents. One former deputy chief said that if crime were reported correctly "it would drive the tourists off," Mr. Linder said.
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