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...which can influence tourism and tax spending ? can be highly misleading. ?If you look at crime rates from year to year and you see a change, there?s a fundamental ambiguity in whether that change is caused by a real change in crime, a change in reporting or some of both,? says criminologist Robert Brame of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a coauthor of the new study. ?Our position is we should own that. There?s ambiguity here and we should learn to deal with it.? --- Aside from, "Well, duhhh...," my reaction was: what other misleading "data" are being thrown aro...