Phony stats put out by the Alameda County Family Justice Center.

The ACFJC just got a good sized US DOJ grant, and announced it on the website.

Along with the press release on the grant, for just under $1M, the ACJFC made two false claims of how much they have accomplished.

One, they claimed they had reduced domestic violence deaths from 26 to 6, and two, they said they have helped "20,000 victims".

The truth is, the ACFJC has only been in existence for two years, since August. 2005, and the DV death rate has been going down, not just here but throughout the country, for a long time. The last year the deaths were as high as 26 was 1996, NINE YEARS BEFORE THE ACFJC EXISTED.

They used a completely phony base year because it sounded a lot more impressive. Simple as that.

As for the "20,000 victims" after I pointed out the death rate number was phony, the ACFJC changed the web page to show they had provided, "20,000 services" to victims and families.

In fact, soemthing like giving out a brochure may be considered a service, answering the phone, damn near anything, so by that definition they probably have given out 20,000 services. I do not think they could justify the claim that all the people who called them or took a brochure, were actual victims. I was over there and took a bunch of brochures, and most likely I am in that 20,000 number.

The truth is, the place is very dead, far more workers go in the place, on a given day, than clients. Even if there are many helpful things done by staff offsite, at other locations, the need to centralize all services, (which cost a lot becuase it involved a big repair and remodeling to that building) which was the original rationale for starting the FJC, has pretty much been shown a false premise by how few people actually use the place. It's a boondoggle, millions of dollars taken by a rich county in California from a Federal agency which otherwise might have gone somewhere it is really needed. And the money was spent on a facility people simply don't use much.