The police have been accused of abusing prisoners and using illegal investigative methods, and institutional incentives discourage full reporting and investigation of many crimes.

These exemptions also have discouraged reporting and investigation of religion-based medical neglect of children and spawned many outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease.

I do not wish to discourage whistleblowing or honest reporting.

This shame surrounding rape discourages reporting and contributes to the difficulty in garnering accurate statistics on sexual assaults.

An increase in reports of sexual violence may actually be due to a decrease in the factors that discouraged reporting, such as a lack of trust in the police.

But Judge Norris suggested that the Newton case might discourage investigative reporting and prevent stories comparable to a Watergate scandal from being uncovered.

He said outside supervision by "unskilled and untrained eyes" would "discourage honest reporting" inside the system.

He clarified that if the Press Council imposed measures that "discourage irresponsible reporting" the ANC would retain the current model of media self-regulation.

One is that China's aggressive effort to halt the disease now, which includes punishments for local officials who let it spread, could discourage accurate reporting of cases.

But Mr. Bernard said in his report that Con Ed's record will not improve until something is done about its "corporate culture, which historically has discouraged honest reporting of environmental problems."