Posted on 10/15/2015 5:40:29 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The Los Angeles Police Department misclassified an estimated 14,000 serious assaults as minor offenses in a recent eight-year period, artificially lowering the city's crime levels, a Times analysis found.
With the incidents counted correctly, violent crime in the city was 7% higher than the LAPD reported in the period from 2005 to fall 2012, and the number of serious assaults was 16% higher, the analysis found.
When presented with the findings, top LAPD officials acknowledged the department makes errors and said they were working to improve the accuracy of crime data reporting.
"We know this can have a corrosive effect on the public's trust of our reporting," said Asst. Chief Michel Moore, who oversees the LAPD's system for tracking crime. "That's why we are committed to ... eliminating as much of the error as possible."
The misclassified cases often involved attacks that resulted in serious injuries, such as a 2009 incident in which April L. Taylor stabbed her boyfriend in the stomach with a 6-inch kitchen knife during a domestic dispute, police and court records show.
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Obama:
12 person terrorist mass murder = “Workplace Violance”
HIS leadership
The issue is who is committing the crimes.
If the data doesn’t show what the narrative wants, it doesn’t get reported. Heck, it happens where I live now. There are all sorts of attacks in the West End that are never reported.
Trying to turn LA into the Brown Detroit.
The Los Angeles Police Department has came a long long way from William H. Parker has it not?
Yeah, it’s not like they do this anywhere else like New York or Chicago.
Is there a democRAT mayor or Republican mayor in Los Angeles?
L.A. has devolved into a Third World hellhole with a good baseball team, great hockey team, excellent soccer team, no pro football team, and a basketball team in the toilet.
But at least SoCal has good weather.
They are just adopting the method in favor by leftists all over the world.
Underreporting like this is epidemic in the UK, I have read.
Without a doubt, police are the worst at statistics. There is always a confluence of incompetence and agenda that makes crime stats useless.
These were started to take away the second amendment, pure and clear....
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