[ WP ] You , a statistician , set out to figure out why there was a 93 % drop in fire related deaths in June of 1989 .

The fall of the Berlin Wall had been a happy event, celebrated not only in Germany but all over the world. In the months after it was n't only the economy that benefited from the fall, but other areas improved as well. There were less crime, especially in the eastern part of the city, but in June something weird happened, as deaths related to fires had gone down by 93 %, and it would turn out that it would stay that way for years to come. Even though many of the horrible statistics had gone down since the fall of the wall, this one were an outlier, as it had such a dramatic drop. 
 
 At the time it had gone by without much notice, and it was not until I got the job in 1999, that the truth was uncovered. It was the one and only time, where my job as a statistician had resulted in someone going to jail. 
 I had spent the first few weeks after getting the job by looking at all sorts of statistics in the months after the fall. But nothing really indicated why there would be such a drastic drop in fire related deaths in June. That was until I discovered something awful, and it was purely by accidents. 
 
 I had not thought of looking much into statistics from before the fall of the wall, but one day I got hold of a pre-fall statistic that showed that many people from all over Europe with fire related criminal records, had immigrated to West Berlin. In this city divided by a huge wall had they found their paradise. They had settled in the richer western part of Berlin, and they had struck a deal with the Russian guards of the wall, that frequently would let them through the wall into East Berlin, which were much poorer compared to West Berlin, and therefore not as cared for by the outside world. They would run around East Berlin and satisfy their twisted need. 
 
 That was the reason for the drop in fire related deaths in June of 1989, the wall were no longer there, and the criminals could no longer run around with fear of consequences. My report made a few of the guilty people go to jail, buy many more could not be identified and probably left Berlin not long after the fall of the wall. 
 

