Did the enforcement sweep cause the prevalence drop?

Measure impactHard

Problem. T&S Ops ran a large enforcement sweep for one policy area. In the following weeks prevalence fell noticeably. Leadership wants to put the result in the transparency report and fund three more sweeps. What do you tell them?

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