In an e-mail I recieved from them regarding the Swiss homicide discrepancy:
Thank you for your email.
In response to your enquiry, INTERPOL's International Crime Statistics are no longer being made available to the public.
The decision to remove the statistics was taken as some users and some members of the media were making comparisons between countries based on these statistics, when different collection methods make such comparisons problematic.
For official statistics relating to a specific country, we would advise you to contact them directly. The UNODC also provides international statistics.
Regards,
Press Office
INTERPOL
So people were misusing the data so INTERPOL yanked it. Boy, that sounds familiar.
(yes, that goes for our side to)
1 comment:
i've long suspected that international statistics aren't comparable because the statisticians in each country are simply operating in too different cultures. nice to see somebody at interpol thinks something vaguely like it, makes me feel a bit less loony.
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