Chris Lloyd wrote:

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/after-12-years-crime-may-bring-labor-undone-how-have-rising-rates-affected-your-suburb-20261025-p613w9.html

“An analysis of crime statistics by The Age shows that in more than 60 per cent of Melbourne council areas and more than 40 per cent of regional municipalities, the rates of aggravated burglaries, car thefts and assaults have reached their highest levels in a decade over the past two years.”

Hmmm. Now that’s an interesting metric whose statistical properties one could build an entire analytics class around!

If we critique such things too much there could be no role for Statisticians at all

I was just browsing another similar headline about road fatalities

Rather sad that electoral terms are so short