02-01-2013, 07:47 PM
Quote:In some cases agents located their operations in areas where violent firearm crimes had already been declining, according to the report.
In more than half the cases studied, the ATF used citywide data rather than numbers from the target areas, favorably skewing their analyses when reporting on homicides committed with firearms, the report found. And, teams in several of the cities failed to implement key strategies, such as compiling "worst of the worst" lists, engaging in community outreach or utilizing tracing and other technological resources.
http://cleanupatf.org/forums/index.php?/...-failures/
So in areas where crime was going down, they set-up shop. Make sense of that...