{"id":2251,"date":"2009-09-21T04:28:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2009-09-21T06:07:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T14:07:13","slug":"a-damnd-lie-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"A Damn'd Lie Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8266014.stm\"><q>Records of rape crime <q>distorted<\/q><\/q> from the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\" style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\"><p>Rape claims are being left off official crime records, the BBC has learned.<\/p> <p>Figures obtained following a Freedom of Information request showed some UK police forces were failing to record more than 40% of cases.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div> <p>For some time now, I've been asserting that, <em>when the same statistical protocol is used<\/em>, the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> is actually ahead of the <abbr title=\"United States\">US<\/abbr> (<span style=\"font-style:italic ;\">per capita<\/span>) in all but a couple of forms of violent crime.  I'm going to have to revise that assertion.  The <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> is ahead of the <abbr title=\"United States\">US<\/abbr> in all forms of violent crime except criminal homicide.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Records of rape crime distorted from the BBC Rape claims are being left off official crime records, the BBC has learned. Figures obtained following a Freedom of Information request showed some UK police forces were failing to record more than 40% of cases. For some time now, I've been asserting that, when the same statistical [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,4],"tags":[278],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}