{"id":327,"date":"2015-01-28T15:45:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T05:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=327"},"modified":"2015-01-28T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T05:45:53","slug":"politicians-continue-to-misrepresent-crime-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2015\/01\/28\/politicians-continue-to-misrepresent-crime-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians continue to misrepresent crime data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/qld-crime-rates-data.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-332\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/qld-crime-rates-data-300x193.png\" alt=\"qld-crime-rates-data\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/qld-crime-rates-data-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/qld-crime-rates-data-467x300.png 467w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/qld-crime-rates-data.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABC&#8217;s Fact Check today featured Professor Kerry Carrington&#8217;s analysis of crime statistics. ABC found that Newman&#8217;s claims of sharp drops in crime in Queensland are exaggerated. Carrington noted that &#8220;Queensland desperately needs an independent crime statistics unit to prevent (data) from being misused, particularly during election campaigns. This is an abominable misuse of crime data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-01-27\/fact-check-qld-crime-rates-newman\/6009168\" target=\"_blank\">Fact check: Campbell Newman exaggerating crime statistics ahead of Queensland poll<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC&#8217;s Fact Check today featured Professor Kerry Carrington&#8217;s analysis of crime statistics. ABC found that Newman&#8217;s claims of sharp drops in crime in Queensland are exaggerated. Carrington noted that &#8220;Queensland desperately needs an independent crime statistics unit to prevent (data) from being misused, particularly during election campaigns. This is an abominable misuse of crime data.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,9703,9712],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-news","8":"category-our-research","9":"category-staff"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}