Here's some food for thought.

A couple of decades ago, when US cities were hounding their police departments for their horrible crime statistics, statistics that were costing big tourist bucks, the nations police chiefs came up with a winning solution: Let's only write police reports for the more serious crimes, and not report every altercation that is called in. Suddenly, crime in the city was on a downward spiral.

Granted, there were also some good crime prevention programs instituted. But this all begs the question: Are we comparing apples to oranges here?