Editing Scientology ethics and justice (section)

=== Upstat, downstat, ethics protection, Kha-Khan ===

A person whose statistic is up trending, is called an ''upstat''. A person whose statistic is down trending is called a ''downstat''.

In 1965, Hubbard wrote, "Ethics actions are often used to handle down individual statistics. A person who is not doing his job becomes an Ethics target" and goes on to detail how a Scientologist can protect himself from Ethics punishment by being more productive and keeping statistics up: "In short, a staff member can get away with murder so long as his statistic is up and can't sneeze without a chop if it's down."<ref>HCOPL 1 Sep 1965 (reissued 5 Oct 1985) "Ethics Protection"</ref>

If the staff member's production is sufficiently high (as evidenced by an up statistic), the Scientologist gains an immunity to the Ethics process (''ethics protection''), even if they have openly committed violations:
{{blockquote|text=When people do start reporting a staff member with a high statistic, what you investigate is the person who turned in the report. In an ancient army a particularly brave deed was recognized by an award of the title of '''Kha-Khan'''. It was not a rank. The person remained what he was, BUT he was entitled to be forgiven the death penalty ten times in case in the future he did anything wrong. That was a Kha-Khan. That's what producing, high-statistic staff members are – Kha-Khans. They can get away with murder without a blink from Ethics.... And Ethics must recognize a Kha-Khan when it sees one – and tear up the bad report chits on the person with a yawn.|author=L. Ron Hubbard|source=HCOPL 1 Sep 1965, "Ethics Protection"}}