>crime data is simply a measurement of policing activity // Are you thinking of a specific jurisdiction's specific statistical set here, because that's not tru

>crime data is simply a measurement of policing activity // Are you thinking of a specific jurisdiction's specific statistical set here, because that's not true in general. In the UK I know we have perception surveys of the public that ask 'have you been subject to crime' and those statistics are not measures of policing as many crimes reported in the survey won't have been reported to police. Example for me: someone scratched my car body work ("keyed" it), I didn't report it as I wasn't going to claim on insurance and knew the car park owners had reported similar occurrences in the recent past (I spoke to them: 'yeah, happens a lot here'). Crime survey would show a crime against my property; police statistics wouldn't.