NYC Public School Parents: Juking the Stats: Hallmark of the Bloomberg administration

NYC Public School Parents: Juking the Stats: Hallmark of the Bloomberg administration:

Juking the Stats: Hallmark of the Bloomberg administration

by Leonie Haimson

Two of the most damning legacies of the 12-year Bloomberg imperium will likely be the fallacious, manipulative (over)use of data in the NYPD and the DOE -- what is commonly known in the police world as "juking the stats." For all who watch our children's educations and our city's public schools being systematically ruined by an ill-conceived and obsessive focus on "management by measurables," it is highly instructive to pay attention to the NYPD's parallel world of systemic data manipulation, intentional mis-reporting, and quota-driven law "enforcement" slowly being revealed as equally invalid, and equally damaging to cititzens' rights, self-respect, and even safety.

In Tuesday's NY Times, Michael Powell continued this reporting ("No Room for Dissent in a Police Department Consumed by Numbers). Just as Joel Klein and Dennis Walcott would sooner be tortured than