{"id":136210,"date":"2018-05-04T07:18:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T13:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136210"},"modified":"2018-05-06T00:42:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T06:42:14","slug":"assault-and-statistical-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/assault-and-statistical-battery.html","title":{"rendered":"Assault and Statistical Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently it&#8217;s easy to show a surge of &#8220;assaults&#8221; against Border Patrol agents when you change how you count assaults to a method that nobody else uses but that gives you much, much higher numbers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/04\/23\/border-patrol-agents-assaulted-cbp-fbi\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/RlxvPUEiwVMAu60NHqOHqwNAYkMZ_bW1JFwtspyyBHRfKzm6-EiJ2CmSIp4KPUzeUgmTPEy54mEu-jVzZ1dVQoTogzBBwoZEJk8ThFs-tCMG5rszoKweC1f-ggmr14XzBPO9G_zGRstwaMtEpCBB1Vk_BRUUGEHY3WuFsXvu-cS09_oH-JeBslQBXIMQQbNoMcCursFTH9h2VT69YeZTBOlNNLOUXX5ijg=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/04\/23\/border-patrol-agents-assaulted-cbp-fbi\/\">How the Border Patrol Faked Statistics Showing a 73 Percent Rise in Assaults Against Agents<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nCustoms and Border Protection has grossly inflated its data on assaults against Border Patrol agents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/8u3E7UxJKNB\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently it&#8217;s easy to show a surge of &#8220;assaults&#8221; against Border Patrol agents when you change how you count assaults to a method that nobody else uses but that gives you much, much higher numbers. 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