Posted on 04/08/2014 10:10:56 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Chicago police did not report about a quarter of the aggravated assault and aggravated battery victims in its crime statistics in 2012, an audit by the city's top watchdog found.
The department failed to follow state guidelines by counting each aggravated assault or battery as one incident, not each victim as it should have, leading to the underreporting because of all the incidents that involved multiple victims, according to the inspector general's office.
The department said it has reported aggravated assaults and aggravated batteries in this way for many years, meaning Chicago's statistics on these crimes — including nonfatal shootings — have long gone underreported to the Illinois State Police and FBI.
The Tribune first highlighted how the department reported the number of shooting incidents, not victims, in a front-page story in 2010 that focused on one month during that summer.
Then, last July, the newspaper analyzed virtually every shooting in the first six months of 2013 and found that there had been more than 1,000 victims, far more than the department's own numbers since it reported only shooting incidents.
The 24-page IG report, which found no evidence suggesting any of the department's crime-reporting errors were intentional, took a look at a sampling of 383 assault-related crimes and found that the 72 aggravated assault and aggravated battery incidents had a combined 95 victims. That meant that by reporting only the number of incidents, Chicago police had failed to include 23 victims, thus underreporting 24 percent of the aggravated assault and aggravated batteries in that sampling.
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TEAM MEMBER: How about we just don't report it?
OFFICIAL: Give that man a raise.
My guess is police departments all over the country under-report black crime. Helps democrats...
This under reporting of crime has been going on for years. Atlanta Georgia admitted it several years ago. Once again with the current administration, the Third World is now for the first time in control, and they are of course bungling as it is their nature to bungle. They are flawed. Therefore, we get all the “feel good news” which they hope will postpone the backlash long enough for the Third World to consolidate their hold on our American Republic.
—IIRC, Milwaukee had some of this “problem”, too-—
Nobody believes the lefty politicians, prosecutors, or media anymore.
As soon as the social media boom starts to die back, it'll really start to show in the exodus.
TEAM MEMBER: How about we just don't report it?
OFFICIAL: Give that man a raise.
Why has crime been going down? Because the FBI turns a blind eye toward official lying...
You're right on this Navy - our 'public servants' must be so proud... we trust them less than used car salesmen pushing snake oil...
Who knew “The Wire” wasn’t just a TV series /s
It’s called ‘going down with crime’. Philly got in trouble with this 20 years ago.
It starts with a poorly implemented COMPSTAT system where precinct commanders are graded on the crime stats in their districts. Then you make them responsible for marking up the statistics (still using summary UCR - they never did implement NIBRS as far as I know). Philly got rid of their police HQ staff who scored the UCRs, made the district commanders responsible for scoring and then implemented a bastardized version of Bratton’s system. All of a sudden people are writing their own report cards. Add to that that the FBI cut training and support for the UCR program so there was little oversight it auditing from the federal level.
The natural tendency then is to shade the stats to make yourself look good. That’s exactly what happened. A race to the bottom began until the fudging got ridiculous. The papers caught on and then... Hilarity ensued.
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