Crime Stats: "the washing machine"

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  • March 18, 2016 at 1:20 pm #40781
    wv
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    An inter esting article on crime stats
    I read the other day. Happens to be about Chicago
    but i suspect the crime-stat issue is nation-wide

    http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2014/Chicago-crime-statistics/

    “….Together, this information shows what Smith, Gottesman, and countless Chicagoans have been saying all along: The city’s crime numbers seem too good to be true. One former lieutenant has a name for the system: the washing machine. “They wash and rinse the numbers,” the lieutenant says.

    Documents and interviews reveal how this may be happening. First, on McCarthy’s watch, the department quietly changed several bedrock crime reporting and scoring policies. For example, in the statistics it compiles and shares with the public on its website each week, it stopped including certain crimes that had been counted in the past….”

    March 19, 2016 at 1:31 pm #40801
    bnw
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    Typical of government.

    The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

    Sprinkles are for winners.

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