Statistics Are Like Lampposts to a Drunk—Support, Not Illumination: Mark Twain is often credited with the quip that there are “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” In today’s Democrat-run major cities, that warning rings truer than ever. Mayors and police chiefs routinely boast of falling crime rates, cherry-picking murders and shootings while downplaying or reclassifying the everyday chaos that residents witness with their own eyes. When violent incidents get downgraded to mi