Why are the Taxpayers Alliance lying about crime?

The Taxpayers Alliance have a new report out about crime. It goes like this: Stage 1: Data analysis using government figures about costs of different crimes, broken down by region to derive a cost per head of crimes in that area Stage 2: (Mumble, mumble) Stage 3: Therefore we need to cut bureaucracy and elect local police chiefs, just as the Conservative Party want What's interesting is that there was literally no attempt made to connect the 'research' that they did with the conclusions. They didn't compare their cost of crime figures across different years, they didn't compare with other countries, they didn't compare different policing strategies or anything. Nor did they weight the figures they got for any of the socio-economic factors which the report itself mentions will affect the results. It's either that they don't... [read full story]