Crime down 40% across the board in LA!!!
Posted on 07/09/2009 6:01:49 PM PDT by george76
The map, touted as a way for residents to monitor the safety of their neighborhoods, doesn't include about 19,000 serious crimes reported in other LAPD data. Officials say they're looking into it.
The Los Angeles Police Department's online crime map intended for public use has failed to include nearly 40% of serious crimes reported in the city.
In one of those rapes, a man hid in the back of a woman's car, forced her to drive to an abandoned North Hollywood apartment and assaulted her. It was the kind of incident that residents of the neighborhood around Sherman Way and Kester Avenue would have wanted to know about.
The March 26 attack was reported on the LAPD's blog but has yet to show up on the public map.
The lapses mean that the map, touted by city leaders as an important and innovative resource for city residents to determine whether their neighborhoods are safe, presents a drastically incomplete image of city crime.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The problem is that it’s not a database of police blotter events... or at least a couple of queries to one. That is to say, I bet dollars to donughts the “public database” is completely disparate from the police’s own databases.
I’ve had SOME experience w/ the government in my 8.5 years of enlistment and I can say this: people are not trained to do their job effectively, they are forced to use the tools/procedures of the lowest common denominator. This is why they’ll do EVERYTHING in Excel... especially when a database would be better. [slightly sarcastic hyperbole, but more true than is comfortable]
LA’s A-—hole mayor “Tony Villar” been toting his crime reduction stats...everyone out there knows their cooked by the crook
I wonder what percent of L.A. Crime occurs in Maxine Waters’ district.
They PROBABLY did not report any crimes committed by “minorities” against white people.
I looked for a related story in our newspaper or TV stations all of the following week.
It never happened, apparently.
Not surprising that I don't believe jack about the crime report in the paper every week.
The reason it never appeared in the newspaper is because they were there just to shoot someones dog.
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