{"id":4788,"date":"2003-02-20T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-20T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2021-06-14T19:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:32:49","slug":"inflated-terrorism-conviction-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/02\/20\/inflated-terrorism-conviction-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflated Terrorism Conviction Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government Executive Magazine on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govexec.com\/dailyfed\/0203\/021903td1.htm\">Report: Justice managers fail to ensure accuracy of terrorism statistics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Justice Department does not have sufficient oversight and policies in place to ensure the accuracy of its terrorism-related conviction statistics, according to a report released Wednesday by the General Accounting Office.<\/p>\n<p>The report (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/new.items\/d03266.pdf\">GAO-03-266<\/a>) found that at least 132, or 46 percent, of the 288 cases cited as terrorism-related convictions in fiscal 2002 were misclassified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, these 132 cases were merely &#8220;misclassified.&#8221;  No one in the present Administration would ever do something so devious as deliberately padding the statistics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Link courtesy of Patrice McDermott via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indefenseoffreedom.org\">In Defense of Freedom<\/a> mailing list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government Executive Magazine on Report: Justice managers fail to ensure accuracy of terrorism statistics: The Justice Department does not have sufficient oversight and policies in place to ensure the accuracy of its terrorism-related conviction&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[128,143],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-civil-liberties","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1fe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7522,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/7522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}