Number Games Police Work And The Reporter And Press That Turned A Blind Eye

     The media could expose number games police work, but it requires too much work and effort on their part. They like easy, sensational stories. They also will not risk alienating sources of stories, be it from a nonprofit or from a police department.
      If people think real investigative reporters exist out there, they best think again.
      It is easy to expose a numbers game when it is a practice put on paper. That is simple. But when it is not documented on paper, which is almost always the case, and because this requires more digging, investigating and effort to uncover, count the press out. The press does not care about outcomes. It does not care about making things better. It cares only about having a story- the more sensational the better.
         A  numbers game was exposed because it was put on paper. A reporter was given the documentation. Nothing changed, except the police department removed the paper and made the whole process informal. When the reporter was told nothing changed, and that the police department simply removed all documentation of the practice, but the whole thing was continuing unabated, the reporter was not interested. What should have been stopped never had a champion to stop it. The power of the press meant nothing.