BarkGrowlBite / July 3, 2013
After NYPD was accused of manipulating crime statistics to make itself look good and the city appear safe, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly appointed a committee of former prosecutors to investigate the allegations.
The committee's report has just been released. The investigators found a significant amount of misreporting. However, instead of putting the blame on the deliberate manipulation of crime statistics, the report attributed the misreporting to human error.
For instance, in one case a man was beaten up by a pack of thugs who ran off with his belongings. Instead of reporting it as a robbery, the crime was classified as ‘lost property.’
Lost property? Hey, wait a minute! Come to think of it, that's actually correct. Since the cops will never recover the victim's belongings, those belongings are lost property.
See, that was not a 'human error' after all. And, by using the same logic, neither was it a manipulation of crime statistics.
And classifying a forcible rape as 'illegal entry' seems perfectly logical to me.
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