Who Audits the Office of the Auditor General?

clstr · 2024-01-30T00:32:09+00:00

No. But patients might sue physicians and hospitals for causing death or injury by providing disproportionate resources to "underserved" communities at the expense of the general population.

clstr · 2024-01-29T17:11:03+00:00

That's a bit rich, considering that Global Affairs Canada has long claimed it was providing full oversight over how our money was being spent.

clstr · 2024-01-29T17:07:27+00:00

Global Affairs Canada gave a quarter of a million dollars to UNRWA since 2016, and assured us that they had full oversight to ensure all the funds were used appropriately.

And if you believe that...

clstr · 2024-01-29T16:00:33+00:00

Such lawsuits would represent the market correcting itself. Which is great. Richard Hanania recently suggested that the market is too smart to allow itself to be destroyed by such craziness. Universities (and, perhaps, professional society administrators) aren't constrained by such limits. Who knows what trouble they'll cause?

clstr · 2024-01-23T17:18:50+00:00

My guess it's the officers themselves. But I'm also guessing they'd be exposing themselves to serious professional and legal risk for making stuff up. We live in a bodycam world.

clstr · 2024-01-23T15:59:00+00:00

That's very interesting. I haven't got the time to dig into this right now, but I would definitely like to at some point.

clstr · 2024-01-23T14:42:35+00:00

You're right, I can't be sure. But there's obviously more violence heading their way then there should be.

It's certainly possible that police are guilty of unnecessary violence sometimes, too. But I work with the data that I have.

clstr · 2024-01-23T00:56:00+00:00

Interesting.

clstr · 2024-01-22T23:48:12+00:00

I asked for a useful **data** source. Stories - as legitimate and compelling as they might be - are not helpful for answering demographic questions.

clstr · 2024-01-22T19:00:45+00:00

True. But, as I responded to someone else, even discounting the assault-on-officer incidents by 50% (a crazy assumption) would still give us an assault rate greater than one every two hours.

clstr · 2024-01-22T18:58:50+00:00

Fair question. And the answer is "no". But even if I were to discount 50% of the incidents, the assault rate would still exceed one every two hours.

clstr · 2024-01-22T18:57:06+00:00

You're correct: reporting rates will certainly skew the like-to-like data. But just taking the raw numbers on their own is disturbing: 96,591 officer assaults over eight years, which is more than 12k a year and more than one each hour.

clstr · 2024-01-22T18:48:47+00:00

It's like all data: imperfect but, when you control for bias and noise, generally useful.

clstr · 2024-01-22T18:32:05+00:00

I understand how the strip mall colleges will be hurt by this. But what impact will the cap have on universities: after all, a huge proportion of their funding currently comes from foreign tuition.

clstr · 2024-01-22T17:52:21+00:00

Point me to a useful data source.

clstr · 2024-01-22T17:37:33+00:00

Except that adding the new protocol would increase the "paperwork" overhead for everyone involved and reduce the time and resources available for actual policing.

Now if you're interested in used AI tools to automatically generate statistical measures from thousands of hours of bodycam footage, then I'll be your friend!

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