Oopsie
All those reports that said violent crime in DC was declining were horse shit:
Violent crime in the District jumped nearly 9 percent last year, the latest police statistics show — a big turnabout from earlier claims that the numbers had dropped from the previous year.
Police revised the yearly crime tally after turning up major discrepancies in their crime databases, officials revealed yesterday. An internal review uncovered crimes that were misclassified or not counted, officials said.
The new figures show significant increases in assaults and robberies, in marked contrast to the preliminary tallies released at year’s end. Police officials first flagged questions about the record-keeping last summer and have been working to reconcile the numbers. But they made no mention of these problems when they provided the rosier crime outlook in December.
Via PGP.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:17 am
I doubt that they are going as far as to drag dead bodies over state borders, but I’m sure that every administration from Marion Barry onward cooks the crime stats books.
You will notice that the city has a new police chief. While she claims the misstatements were not done maliciously, she really needs to restate the stats of the previous police chief so she has a realistic baseline to cook the books from herself. After all, if she all of a sudden started having her minions report the truth, she’d look as if she was doing a crappy job.