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LAPD Misclassified Nearly 1,200 Violent Crimes As Minor Offenses
Los Angeles Times ^

Posted on 08/11/2014 4:20:46 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; lapd
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Any legit stats coming from ANY government agency? The heads likely got bonuses for 'lowering crime'.
1 posted on 08/11/2014 4:20:46 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Liars. Enablers.

Consistent with Holder provoking violence from Coast
to Coast while weaponizing al Qaeda and narcoterrorists
while the EXEMPT Congress schemes to enrich itself.


2 posted on 08/11/2014 4:23:52 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: TigerClaws

Yep, that has to figure in somehow. I’m not sure they got paid, but someone was putting the pressure on to downgrade.


3 posted on 08/11/2014 4:24:02 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: TigerClaws

I don’t trust these lowered crime stats at all.

We’re being lied to.


4 posted on 08/11/2014 4:24:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: DoughtyOne

This is SOP in Chicago.


5 posted on 08/11/2014 4:24:51 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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I’m sure it is. I’m also sure it’s SOP in a lot of other places.


6 posted on 08/11/2014 4:26:41 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: DoughtyOne

It could be political pressure. Lie to the public about how much safer everything is. Liked the b.s. unemployment numbers.

But in Atlanta there were HUGE bonus payments to teachers and administrators who cheated on tests for kids (changing answers). Millions were paid out. Where are the indictments?

In the VA system, millions of tax dollars were paid out in incentive bonus payments. That’s a RICO conspiracy fraud costing all of us money. Where are the indictments?


7 posted on 08/11/2014 4:28:39 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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The fact that she hadn’t bought him a Valentine’s Day gift was a crime of omission as well.

I want a cute mute next year.


8 posted on 08/11/2014 4:31:00 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: TigerClaws

Your post is right on target IMO. You’re asking the right questions and I agree with your take on what should be taking place as a result. This is low (and sometimes not so low) grade anarchy.


9 posted on 08/11/2014 4:31:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: TigerClaws

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”

Mark Twain


10 posted on 08/11/2014 4:35:49 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: TigerClaws

I read an awful article, it was just awful, about the Chi-town police and their “damn lies and statistics” about murders.

One poor woman’s body was found tied to a chair in an abandoned warehouse, I forget the cause of death but Chicago PD has it classified as a suicide.

It was really disgusting. They are not looking for the murderers and they are not giving the victims the dignity they deserve.

It’s like every level of government is staffed by nothing but liars these days.

We are paying these people to do certain jobs, they don’t do them and they lie about it.

Don’t try this at an actual job, folks.


11 posted on 08/11/2014 4:36:28 PM PDT by jocon307
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Yes, improved target statistics for the coming year are handed down from on high to various areas. Article says so.


12 posted on 08/11/2014 4:36:42 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: TigerClaws
The Internet was supposed to fix this. The Internet made it easier for all of us to just type in a zip code and get the crime stats there.

Of course the crime stats have to come from somewhere. And that somewhere is cities that don't want people to know exactly how bad crime is in their cities.

So now we have greater access to less accurate information.

Of course newspapers are going the way of the dinosaur, and we conservatives love this because we hate all those durned liberals that lie about Republicans and conservatives.

So now there is no one to doublecheck the stats provided by the cities.

Well then private newsletters, such as those provided to investors could fill in the gap. But of course those investor newsletters wouldn't want us to know how bad crime is in certain parts of town or it could be bad for business.

So it turns out the Internet is just another way for us to be lied to.

13 posted on 08/11/2014 4:39:45 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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It was reduced crime statistics in the Miami school districts that gave us Trayvon Martin.

-PJ

14 posted on 08/11/2014 4:41:28 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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But in Atlanta there were HUGE bonus payments to teachers and administrators who cheated on tests for kids (changing answers). Millions were paid out. Where are the indictments?

Trials started July 7. They indicted the heck out of everybody in sight, 35 individuals IIRC, from teachers (who then 'turned' and testified against their superiors) to principals to the school superintendent, who is escaping trial only because she is in Stage 4 breast cancer, bedridden, and not expected to survive more than a few months (I know, I know, that Libyan dude who was repatriated. But she looks pretty darned sick and her oncologists and GPs have testified that she's terminal - even if decent physicians would lie in the first place, why would they perjure themselves for somebody who can do nothing for them? (as an old pol said when asked why nobody came to Mayor Frank Hague's funeral, "When the old man goes, he can't do nothin' for nobody.")

15 posted on 08/11/2014 4:55:10 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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16 posted on 08/11/2014 5:05:10 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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Thanks for the update. Been media blackout outside Atlanta.

I’m still waiting for the VA indictments...


17 posted on 08/11/2014 5:28:10 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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Of course they did. It’s the only way that LA and other cities, towns, counties, states, can show that their crime stats are down.

Police reports are nothing but standardized forms where certain information goes in certain boxes. Usually, there is one box that asks….Crime Committed. If the person was hit with a bottle..you would write…Victim Hit with Bottle/Weapon. At that time, the crime would be classified as an Aggravated Assault. Where I used to work, we had to leave that box blank. It was filled in later, by someone else.

If anyone wants to know why homicide rates are so low, go to the hospitals and talk to the ER staff. They’re the ones keeping the homicide rate down. With technology nowadays, people that were dead just a few years ago are being saved.


18 posted on 08/11/2014 5:36:08 PM PDT by qaz123
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The PROBLEM is that many CONSERVATIVES are FOOLED into thinking that jail sentences are too long and the wind up supporting this early release garbage (they’re especially taken in my the claim that people in jail on drug charges are just ‘casual users’).

...and then they can’t understand why crime immediately SOARS.


19 posted on 08/11/2014 6:14:07 PM PDT by BobL
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Pothead libertarians are the usual suspects in that gambit.

But if you can divert the drug users into a substance abuse program with teeth - i.e. graduate this program and stay clean, or go to prison - you can save prison space for the violent offenders.

I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but an astonishing percentage of property crimes and a pretty good number of crimes against the person are based on somebody being hooked on drugs. If you can get them clean it's better for everyone - the courts, the prison system, the offenders, and their victims. The pilot programs here seem to be working.

20 posted on 08/11/2014 8:23:12 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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