[OC] 20 Gesundheitsinspektoren des LA County, gleiche Postleitzahl in der Innenstadt. 9 haben in 3 Jahren nie eine Zwei gegeben. Das strengste Unternehmen vergab bei fast jedem dritten Besuch die Note B oder C.

I’m surprised they made this data public. Not a good look for the county.

Wonder if they’ve got a handful of guys they send specifically to catch clever offenders that are good at hiding violations.

I managed grocery stores for years and it is wild how inconsistent different health inspectors can be.

We had one guy who showed up in jeans and a hoodie, took a 10-minute walk, told us to fix one thing and didn’t write anything on the report.

The next year, we had a new guy who spent 3 hours in the store finding every tiny violation he could.

During that inspection, a vendor was unloading a pallet that had raw eggs on top of ready to eat foods, which is a violation. We rejected the load. He still took points off for “storing raw items above ready to eat foods”.

They might be assigned to specific areas. Some inspectors may be assigned to hotels, and others assigned to food carts or Crypto Arena.

I worked in several restaurants. I never knew if we were getting the one who didn’t care or the one who tested the dish water temp twice with two different thermometers. Seems like this is universal.

And…. what does this data mean? What should I learn from it?

I look at this chart and it means nothing, except the distribution of inspector grades. Like – did inspector 20 do a better job than inspector 1 (whose work more accurately reflected the truth)? Or was the opposite true? Despite the same zip code, ultimately did inspect different locations at different times? Is this variation in inspector scores expected or not? Do they accurately reflect differences in restaurant quality? Are different inspectors trained to go after different types of restaurants and this is representative of another trend?

There is a study in Tennessee looking at scores from health inspectors : [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3323064/](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3323064/)

The median score being 82.

Of course LA is a different city, but the LA data sounds statistically impossible to occur naturally. 100% convinced either incompetence or corruption is at play.

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There’s no data in this chart that evaluates any inspector as being more or less strict than another. it’s just a distribution of grades they’ve issued.

Ideally, you don’t want to force every business with a violation to close and want to work with them on remediation. That’s not what’s happening here. Free meals are more likely.