And Do Panaceas Ever Work?

Strange that a guy who made so much money delivering data seems to care so little about it:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted Tuesday that the skyrocketing number of NYPD stop-and-frisks has had little impact on the number of people shot in New York City.

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“This is not a panacea for everything. But what is clear is that the number of murders have come down dramatically and this is one of the techniques that Ray uses,” he said.

“As he said, if you have other suggestions on how to get guns out of the hands of kids, we’d love to hear it,” Bloomberg added. “If they’re practical, we would like to adopt that.”

(Willfully ignoring data is another good reason stuff like congestion pricing never went through . . .)