During the early 1970s, Arantz achieved Australian fame when he became involved in a long-running and highly publicised battle with the New South Wales government after having been dismissed from his job.
In 1971, while working on a computerisation program, Arantz discovered that the NSW police service had been systematically under-reporting crime statistics for years.
[1] Meanwhile, both Commissioner Allan and New South Wales Premier Robert Askin had retired (respectively in 1972 and 1975), avoiding the taint from the scandal.
It was not until 1989 that Arantz and his claims were finally and publicly vindicated,[2] by which point Askin and Allan were long since dead.
Four years earlier, the state government, led since 1976 by Neville Wran, had paid Arantz $250,000.