[Alberta's Child]

There's a small, eclectic street newspaper in New York that did a series of stories earlier this year documenting a number of "disappearing crimes" in the city. The paper's reporters actually witnessed a number of violent crimes, then went back and checked police records some time later only to learn that these crimes "never happened."

One of them involved a murder in a subway station that was witnessed by quite a number of people but never got reported as a crime.

New York may be much safer now than it was 15 years ago, but these numbers don't mean a damn thing to me. I suspect the city government is about as diligent about reporting crime statistics as NY Newsday is about reporting circulation figures.

[PGalt]

Great point. 549+ dead people aren't breathing a sigh of relief.

[neverdem]

New York may be much safer now than it was 15 years ago, but these numbers don't mean a damn thing to me.

That's an excellent point. I've read more than a few stories where the policy of various police departments is to downgrade the seriousness of all crimes they have to report.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

CRAIN'S?