Bar charts for events the surveillance program helped with:
y = count of terrorist plots stopped, x = time bucket
y = cost of surveillance programs, x = time bucket
y = count of petty crimes caught, x = time bucket
y = count of total analyst caught abusing power, x = time bucket
y = count of total Americans profiles, x = time bucket
y = count of total world wide profiles, x = time bucket
y = count of illegal immigration caught, x = time bucket
Fictional, but it makes a poignant point about needing to deeply understand how metrics are collected and recorded to be confident in the conclusions drawn from them.
<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=nRt46W3k-qw>
The statistics discussion begins at about 8 minutes, and continues for much of the discussion and Q&A.
I'd seen that long before watching The Wire itself, and in fact the lecture was a large part of the reason I wanted to watch the series.
(Poor quality audio and a very distracting speaking manner. Still very much worth listening to.)
So, no. Please don’t give me BS charts and graphs to make it easier for fed-apologists to point and play security theater.
Their metrics generating and promoting departments will have field day with this. Endless reports, case studies etc, a whole industry will pop up gorging on tax payer dollars for this "metrics" task.
After all, the big enshittification of internet which is popular topic here is based on metrics of ad networks effectiveness.