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Crime stats are increasingly unreliable. Thanks to compstat in the NYPD and other municipalities emulating it, police commanders browbeat and oftentimes downright threaten subordinates to shitcan/recategorize crime reports.
The only thing you can't shitcan is murder, and they're working on that. Chicago just created a new homicide category, "indoor" homicides. It's a fucking joke. |
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Crime stats are increasingly unreliable. Thanks to compstat in the NYPD and other municipalities emulating it, police commanders browbeat and oftentimes downright threaten subordinates to shitcan/recategorize crime reports. The only thing you can't shitcan is murder, and they're working on that. Chicago just created a new homicide category, "indoor" homicides. It's a fucking joke. So you mean that now, they can say it's not "murder," it's "indoor homicide" so it doesn't sound quite as bad? 
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Crime stats are increasingly unreliable. Thanks to compstat in the NYPD and other municipalities emulating it, police commanders browbeat and oftentimes downright threaten subordinates to shitcan/recategorize crime reports. The only thing you can't shitcan is murder, and they're working on that. Chicago just created a new homicide category, "indoor" homicides. It's a fucking joke. So you mean that now, they can say it's not "murder," it's "indoor homicide" so it doesn't sound quite as bad?
What I'm saying is that Chicago is having an uptick in homicides, so what they're doing is saying "Look, we're having a rise in homicides, but many of these take place indoors, so we have no control over that". Statistics are everything in many jurisdictions, and the bottom line is that stats can't be seen to go up under a commander's watch or his career takes a very serious hit. Commanders realize that they must keep numbers down, regardless of how it's done. Reports are routinely shredded, quite literally. ETA My personal experience in these matters is well east of shitcago, but they drink the same kool-aid as the area I'm familiar with. I have a few years to go yet, can't be more specific. Sorry. |
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Crime stats are increasingly unreliable. Thanks to compstat in the NYPD and other municipalities emulating it, police commanders browbeat and oftentimes downright threaten subordinates to shitcan/recategorize crime reports. The only thing you can't shitcan is murder, and they're working on that. Chicago just created a new homicide category, "indoor" homicides. It's a fucking joke. So you mean that now, they can say it's not "murder," it's "indoor homicide" so it doesn't sound quite as bad?
What I'm saying is that Chicago is having an uptick in homicides, so what they're doing is saying "Look, we're having a rise in homicides, but many of these take place indoors, so we have no control over that". Statistics are everything in many jurisdictions, and the bottom line is that stats can't be seen to go up under a commander's watch or his career takes a very serious hit. Commanders realize that they must keep numbers down, regardless of how it's done. Reports are routinely shredded, quite literally. ETA My personal experience in these matters is well east of shitcago, but they drink the same kool-aid as the area I'm familiar with. I have a few years to go yet, can't be more specific. Sorry. Ok, gotcha. I didn't mean any flame against you by the way. |
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Crime stats are increasingly unreliable. Thanks to compstat in the NYPD and other municipalities emulating it, police commanders browbeat and oftentimes downright threaten subordinates to shitcan/recategorize crime reports. The only thing you can't shitcan is murder, and they're working on that. Chicago just created a new homicide category, "indoor" homicides. It's a fucking joke. So you mean that now, they can say it's not "murder," it's "indoor homicide" so it doesn't sound quite as bad?
What I'm saying is that Chicago is having an uptick in homicides, so what they're doing is saying "Look, we're having a rise in homicides, but many of these take place indoors, so we have no control over that". Statistics are everything in many jurisdictions, and the bottom line is that stats can't be seen to go up under a commander's watch or his career takes a very serious hit. Commanders realize that they must keep numbers down, regardless of how it's done. Reports are routinely shredded, quite literally. ETA My personal experience in these matters is well east of shitcago, but they drink the same kool-aid as the area I'm familiar with. I have a few years to go yet, can't be more specific. Sorry. Ok, gotcha. I didn't mean any flame against you by the way. No way bro, never took it that way. |
