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.