After the excerpts of public grievances, the review team began examining the police conflict statistics.
This table had been placed near the front of the Relocation Order documentation back then.
Its title was unremarkable.
Summary of Konoha Military Police Force conflicts following the Nine-Tails disaster.
The table was neatly organized, too.
Date.
Location.
Nature of conflict.
Outcome.
Personnel involved.
At first glance, there was nothing wrong with it.
But after reading just a few lines, Gen realized that the danger in this table lay not in the numbers themselves.
It lay in the classifications.
Ordinary verbal disputes had been classified as police conflicts.
Post-disaster traffic congestion had been classified as police conflicts.
Someone questioning the Konoha Military Police Force while queuing for supplies had been classified as a police conflict.
Even an occasion when the Konoha Military Police Force helped evacuate the wounded had been recorded as a police conflict because their families had become agitated.
Statistics tables didn't lie.
The people who made them did.
They didn't need to fabricate numbers.
They only needed to broaden the classification criteria.
After reading it, Fugaku's gaze grew somber.
He still remembered some of these incidents.
During the most chaotic days after the disaster, the Konoha Military Police Force had indeed been cursed at.
They had also argued with villagers.
But in many of those cases, the Uchiha had not been the ones instigating the conflict.
It had been the kind of post-disaster chaos every department had faced.
Yet once the statistics were compiled, only the Uchiha Konoha Military Police Force appeared to be a force constantly inflaming the villagers' emotions.
Inside the Hokage Building, Danzo remained unruffled.
"Order broke down after the disaster. Applying stricter criteria to police conflict statistics was consistent with security needs."
Gen didn't need to hear the