LAPD Misclassified Nearly 1,200 Violent Crimes As Minor Offenses

Los Angeles Times ^

[TigerClaws]

Oce police had Nathan Hunter in handcuffs, they tended to his wife.

She was covered in blood. She told the officers Hunter flew into a rage that night in February 2013 because she hadn't bought him a Valentine's Day gift. He beat and choked her before stabbing her in the face with a screwdriver and throwing her down a flight of stairs at their apartment in South L.A., according to police and court records.

Hunter, 55, was convicted of felony spousal abuse and sentenced to six years in prison.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks GleeIkin...

[xrmusn]

This BS been going on for years.

I parked a car further down my drive than usual and when I came out the next day it was gone.
Guy had some gonads but he had no way of knowing my BR window was on the ground floor on the DW side (Circular Dr).
Anyhow, we found it a couple of days later behind a school and the theory was someone either needed a ride home or, since it was ‘older’, maybe stashed for later use.

When it showed up in the ‘crime’ section of the paper, it was classified as ‘Unauthorized Use’ and I kind of pointed out that Unauthorized Use would be if my keys were on the table and someone I knew took MY car to the store without informing me.

I got the ‘The lower the stolen car rate in the zip code, the lower insurance rates stayed’ talk...

It was basically a ‘pile of junk’ but something I kept around in case another vehicle ‘went down’.

Admittedly, I had left the keys ‘hidden’ in the car but it was a time when we were just getting ‘comfortable’ locking the house up every night....