BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Police Chief TJ Morse has never been a fan of statistics, a point he’s emphasized repeatedly since taking office in 2023. He argues that numbers alone don’t always tell the full story.
“I don’t really like talking about stats,” Morse told the Baton Rouge Metro Council earlier this week. “The only reason I do is because I know that people want to hear them. I’m a little superstituions, so I don’t like to talk about the game before it’s over.”
Still, Morse acknowledges that statistics are important for separating perception from reality…