Posted on 06/07/2024 11:38:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s hard to say which way crime in Los Angeles is going these days.
The Police Department has stopped posting crime numbers to its public website after rolling out a new recordkeeping system and changing the way it counts burglaries, assaults and other crimes.
Officials say that the changes will more accurately capture the level of public safety citywide, and that efforts are underway to get the statistics back online for the public. But for months there has been no easy way to track crime trends in the city.
Police are still providing up-to-date numbers to city officials upon request, and interim Chief Dominic Choi delivers his crime picture briefing to the Police Commission every week.
The department used to release weekly crime reports with breakdowns on the number of offenses and arrests for all violent and property crime categories from the prior week and the year-to-date for the entire city. But the familiar multicolored tables have since disappeared from its site.
LAPD officials added a disclaimer to the site’s crime page about the department’s shift to the National Incident-Based Reporting System, which will bring it in line with federal guidelines aimed at gaining more detailed crime data.
“We are hoping to have both the Open Data Portal and crime statistics both and running in the next few months,” Lt. Christopher Chase of the Compstat Division said in an email to The Times. “It is a Herculean task but lots of smart people are working on it!”
In his latest briefing Tuesday, Choi highlighted figures showing that overall violent crime — which includes homicides, robberies, rapes and serious assaults — is basically unchanged from this time last year, while property crime is down roughly 3%.
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Congratulations!
And now you can move to LA, it’s so safe!
Paul Young, mayor of Youngstown, Tennessee. (Memphis)
The new schools superintendent will most likely try to pull the same stunt.
Chaos, crime, illiteracy, incompetence, and corruption, are the fuels that keep the money flowing in run down blue sewer cities. "Selling solutions" they never intend to solve.
Well they don’t seem to be in a hurry to get it back online do they? I wonder why. Too busy attending DEI and “inclusivity” trainings?
So many companies absolutely and completely botch their migrations to new systems. I have no idea why they can’t find competent people to migrate the old data to the new systems. I’ve bought a lot of stuff from B&H Photo/Video and all my purchase data has gone down the memory hole.
California DMV spend hundreds of millions migrating to a new Oracle system 20 or 30 years ago. I don’t think it ever worked and was flushed down the crapper.
But LAPD says “...lots of smart people are working on it!” so I have 100% confidence they’ll get it right. (you believe me on that, right?)
Did/does the LA Times support Defund the Police?
obviously cooking the books
if they were not
they would have left the old system up
until the new one was ready
Manipulating public records?
“The Police Department has stopped posting crime numbers to its public website after ... changing the way it counts burglaries, assaults and other crimes.”
“Changing the way it counts.”
I think I’ve got this one figured out.
Crime is down. Just take their word for it.🤪
“Crime is down.”
--John Gull
I worked in the power industry for over 30 years. I started off in small industrial package boilers and worked up to very large utility boilers. The scope and complexity of the entire gigantic electrical system always amazed me, especially when I contemplated the hundreds of millions of parts that comprise a massive utility system. There is very little redundancy in any power plant and they all work with very high reliability.
It all started with the first central station called "Pearl Street Station" which was built by the Edison Illuminating Company, under the direction of Francis Upton, hired by Thomas Edison. Pearl Street Station consumed coal for fuel; it began with six 100 kW dynamos and it started generating electricity on September 4, 1882, serving an initial load of 400 lamps to 82 customers. By 1884, Pearl Street Station was serving 508 customers with 10,164 lamps. Electricity was supplied at 110V DC.So, even the technical innovation and expansion in those first two years grew incrementally building upon lots of trial and error. Our modern power system was built up gradually in the ensuing 142 years.
I've often thought that it is pure folly and extreme hubris of the greeniacs and climatistas to think they can command that entire one and one-half centuries of progress be torn down and replaced, especially because there are no technical experts in their ranks. Just look at the headlong rush to wind which is failing everywhere. Or the headlong rush to build wind and solar with no utility-scale storage systems to ride through nights, wind droughts, and cloudy days. Or the headlong rush to electrify everything when there is no generation capacity or T&D capacity to deliver the power.
It is appalling that few engineers have called them out on their folly.
Thanks again for informing me about John Gall!
A crime didn’t happen if it’s not recorded.
Wowza. It's NOT just the major metros. ..
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