[Cyrien]

The figures can actually be verified from other areas as well. And several attempts to artifically reduce crime rates have been uncovered in the past. These were pretty much all the work of local areas such as cities trying to get a better reputation and the figures for those years and those cities were adjusted accordingly. By increasing the crime rates.

If an organization is willing to do that rather than look the other way I am willing to give them a benefit of the doubt.

PS: You can take caution to far as well. Just because one thing from someone is bad doesn't make everything from them bad. If we used that reasoning then after the debut of the Virtua Boy by Nintendo nothing else they made would ever be good ever again. And countless other similiar comparisons and analogies.
IE: Until they do something to lose my trust I tend to trust them, but always with an eye watching for them to do something to lose it. I may be trusting, but not naive. Optimistic Realism.