January 22, 2004
Where's that Corruption
The Corporate Crime Reporter has ranked the 50 states by their rate of corruption.
Then there is the state wannabe The District of Columbia
We calculated the District�s corruption rate as 79.33. This is more than ten times what Mississippi�s corruption rate is......Even though there are some deficiencies in the data (noted in the full PDF report) this is an interesting indicator of the quality of government officials.But we didn�t include the District in the list for one obvious reason � the District is the seat of the federal government, and because of this, there are more criminal prosecutions for public corruption than anywhere else in the country.
It can be said that the District is the most corrupt political entity in the nation � but that�s only because it�s the seat of an apparently actively corrupt federal government � with 453 public corruption convictions over a ten-year period.
Via A List a Day.
Posted by Steve on January 22, 2004
