I’m not surprised there is some accounting chicanery, pretty much all bureaucracies are incentivized to do so. Taking out mass graves and prison homicides from the count seems like gaming the system, unless they intend to publish those numbers as prominently in a second statistic. There seems no reason to do this however other than to play with the numbers.
I actually agree with counting police killings as separate unless a court rules those killings as unjustified and therefore murder and that officer/soldier arrested. Under current circumstances that seems unlikely to happen but in theory I understand why those would be counted separately.
I don’t find governments working with criminals inherently problematic. It’s a good idea to deal with some crimes that are really just business transactions the state frowns upon. The Japanese do this to great effect. There are other issues with the Japanese legal system but their policy of letting the yakuza (et al) police their own so long as they keep their activities out of the public seems to be working. Without the will to legalize certain activities, those activities will continue to happen and thus be criminalized and more dangerous. So at least let the criminals work it out amongst themselves so long as they don’t involve innocents.
I still think that even with the undercounts he has still drastically improved the situation on the ground. I can’t fault people for supporting him when no other by the book solutions have worked.
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I’m not surprised there is some accounting chicanery, pretty much all bureaucracies are incentivized to do so. Taking out mass graves and prison homicides from the count seems like gaming the system, unless they intend to publish those numbers as prominently in a second statistic. There seems no reason to do this however other than to play with the numbers.
I actually agree with counting police killings as separate unless a court rules those killings as unjustified and therefore murder and that officer/soldier arrested. Under current circumstances that seems unlikely to happen but in theory I understand why those would be counted separately.
I don’t find governments working with criminals inherently problematic. It’s a good idea to deal with some crimes that are really just business transactions the state frowns upon. The Japanese do this to great effect. There are other issues with the Japanese legal system but their policy of letting the yakuza (et al) police their own so long as they keep their activities out of the public seems to be working. Without the will to legalize certain activities, those activities will continue to happen and thus be criminalized and more dangerous. So at least let the criminals work it out amongst themselves so long as they don’t involve innocents.
I still think that even with the undercounts he has still drastically improved the situation on the ground. I can’t fault people for supporting him when no other by the book solutions have worked.