Messing with the Bureau of Justice Statistics

Joe Bessette has an excellent article at the Weekly Standard discussing the administration's unfortunate messing around with the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

I really don't want to say more about this, because in my previous life I worked a lot with people who worked at BJS, including Larry Greenfeld, who's the subject of the article, and I feel that even with the passage of well over a decade, I'm a little too close. I've always had the highest regard for Larry and everyone else there.