Telling the new lie was just a matter of time; or as I call it, a matter of transparency

Richard Hylton <hyltonrichard@gmail.com>

Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 5:29 PM

To: Tarryn Mento <tmento@kpbs.org>

Cc: CouncilMember Chris Cate <chrisCate@sandiego.gov>, Office of the General Manager <generalmanager@kpbs.org>, Allen Young <AllenY@sandiego.gov>

The piece on your website today that featured incoming chief Nisleit, is more of the same. It is not “fake news” but it is “weak news”, and so it is not news. It fails to accurately represent the essential findings of a watered-down report that was prepared by your station’s license holder, San Diego State University. I daresay that the fine folk from SDSU, despite their inability to understand the nature of data, found much more than what you have stated. The widespread disparities, requiring corrective action as reported by SDSU, went well beyond searches, alone. Indeed, the most massive disparity was in the use of Field Interviews, an item from Nisliet’s wheelhouse.

The above is an attempt at a remedy for it is an excerpt of my still incomplete measurement analysis for 2017 Stop Data (I am focused on San Francisco's)

Additionally, I have little doubt that you know that Councilman Cate, “the leaker” committed the city to the production of Stop Data reports, around a year ago, as a part of the motion for the acceptance of the now aged report, the one dating back to 2014 and 2015. You should know, as does the public that reads that Zimmerman refused to do such reports. To put it bluntly, the reports are aged, dating back to 2014 and 2015 because the SDPD refused or failed to update them.

I would not give a shilling for that which you are doing.

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