St.Louis' bogus rape numbers

Here's a good an example of how having a monopoly means questioning the numbers you are given.The St.Louis Dispatch reports that St.Louis just makes things up:

St. Louis long seemed like a safe house from rape - a place where the crime was seldom reported and where the rare offender was usually brought to justice.

What the public did not see was that police made choices as to which women to consider as victims.

Read the whole article.Who else but the public sector could make up bogus statistics and get away with it so long? Enron wasn't so lucky.