[geeks] What desk toy or "tchotchke" says "geek" to you?

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Sat Apr 1 23:08:32 CST 2006


>> Yes...except you don't have the arrest and conviction rates; what
>> you have is _one cop's idea of_ the arrest and conviction rates.  At
>> best.  (You could actually have something more like what one cop
>> wants you to think the arrest and conviction rates are....)
> Yes, we definitely do have arrest and conviction rates.  It is
> mandatory bookeeping nationwide.

I guess I cut too much context.  The context here was that the poster
(you, I think) was writing of talking to cops in *other* countries to
get their arrest and conviction rates.

Thus, in context, what the US does in this regard is irrelevant.

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