Getting the numbers together isn't hard, we've done it tons of times before. And with the Scourge out there while people are smacking around the bad demons, we need numbers against numbers.
You say no one will, but you don't know most of them, so how do you know for sure? There could be people out there trying to do it right now.
Well, it shouldn't be easy for somebody to interrogate innocent victims because it's a horrible thing to do.