AP report on Corker's crime claims

Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2006/09/29 - 7:43am.

The AP has picked up on Corker's misleading claim that he reduced crime by 50% as reported here on Monday.

UPDATE: More here and here.

UPDATE: The Maryville Daily Times has the full AP report today (not online). In this article, a CPD spokesperson says "the discrepancy may stem from differences in how the local police and the FBI classified certain kinds of crime" and the Corker campaign says "We took the original documents from the city of Chattanooga."

UPDATE: The Commercial Appeal files another report, and in this one the Corker campaign says that there is a discrepancy between the CPD and FBI statistics because "a switch in the police department's computer software in 2004 may have led to 'double reporting' to the FBI for that year's statistics."

Gosh, it's hard to know who to believe - the FBI and the former Chief of the CPD or the Corker campaign and a CPD PR person. Or which version of their explanation. The Knoxville media is curiously silent on it. I guess they are all busy working on their Corker endorsements.

Les Jones's picture
And only three days after you posted it here
Submitted by Les Jones on Thu, 2006/09/28 - 9:44pm.

If you've got hot news, cross-post it at No Silence Here. Google News uses it as a news source. I've posted items there about Johnia Berry that have gotten picked up by other news outlets. 

Hey, Les, why don't we just call each other assholes and get it over with. - Somebody on the old Southknoxbubba.net (if that was you, claim your quote and win net.fame!)

Brian A.'s picture
The other lame thing about that commercial . . .
Submitted by Brian A. on Thu, 2006/09/28 - 10:28pm.

is the line where he says something like, "We figured out who the bad guys were and put them away."

Wow, there's a novel idea--why didn't a mayor ever think of that one before?

Memo to Haslem: find the bad guys, please.  Call up the Corkmeister; perhaps he'll give Knoxville a few pointers on finding bad guys.

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

Didn't he actually say "we
Submitted by Bbeanster on Fri, 2006/09/29 - 8:45am.

Didn't he actually say "we sent them away?"

Maybe he sent them here....

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