It was human error. But missing police pursuit data still marred a Pierce County audit
Spend enough time listening to lawmakers and you're bound to hear repeated calls for 'data-driven policy.' It's become such a common refrain among ...
Spend enough time listening to lawmakers and you're bound to hear repeated calls for 'data-driven policy.' It's become such a common refrain among local elected officials that the idea has become both sacrosanct and at times meaningless. We all want our laws and decisions to be based on facts. That goes without saying. But the inconvenient problem with facts alone — or hard data, since the general public broadly considers the two things to be the same — is that numbers and figures, even at their best, are messy and easily misleading.