My post on the MLI's critique of StatsCan Crime Stats is up in The Mark. Those who were not previously convinced by the arguments contained therein, shall now be convinced. Those of you in the publishing business will immediately think "Damn that's good! I need to see one of this guys' many, many, many unpublished novels." And you may, as they are all unpublished, as I say.
Elsewhere, the MLI study takes a few more nasty hits.
The CP article you linked was just a teaser; here's a full v. of Bruce Cheadle's piece:
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