Lies and statistics

According to the Inspector General, there may be many more pickpockets running around the Quarter than we have previously been ware of.

New Orleans police officers in the French Quarter-based 8th District improperly downgraded 177 thefts of wallets or purses in which victims reported unauthorized charges on their credit cards, labeling the purloined cards as “lost” rather than stolen, according to a report released today by Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux’s office.

Better buy some more billboards.  This crime is right in the middle of the Hospitality Zone so you can buy either kind.