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Interesting NYPD Lawsuit
Seems someone was fudging the numbers. Seems more someones may have attempted to stifle an investigation of the fudging : Like many police officers,…
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Crime Trends
If we're reading the charts correctly , and it's completely possible we aren't, January 2014 is on pace to match or succeed January 2010 …
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Missing "Homicides"?
Supposedly, as the Sun Times reports , weekend violence left six dead. But they still use this term: Police are still looking at the death of a 32-…
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Youth Shootings Are Down!
Once again, statistical manipulation: The youth violence that has too often drawn a national spotlight on Chicago has taken a significant dip, a new …
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County Numbers Down
From the comments: I work at Cook County Jail. Three Years ago we Averaged 250 Inmates new everyday. Last year we Averaged 175 Inmates Everyday. The…
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Missing Propoganda
A reader asked another question that someone in the media should have done months ago: ...and where's the weekly Table Of Guns for the TV cameras…
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Don't Worry - It's Not a Trend
Gee, thanks eggheads : When news broke late last month that Chicago police Officer Michael Flisk had been ki…
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Homicide Discrepancy
HeyJackass has it at 102. Channel 7 quotes the Department claiming it's "only" 95. Since late Friday afternoon, two people were killed …
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94% Clearance Rate
You want to see how easy it is to manipulate statistics until the numbers start to scream? Look how they do it in Washington DC : For…
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CompStat Comes to Indy
And this website has noticed the book we highlighted a month ago : The basics of American policing, chasing and catching criminals, hasn’t changed mu…
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McBacktrack
Someone owes us an apology : Violent crime is down in "hotspots" where at least 200 cops working overtime conduct nightly patrols, and 200…
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Stops are Still Down.....
.....so what is going up? Police stops in Chicago are down nearly 90 percent as the Chicago Police Department continues to struggle with bad morale …
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Correlation Failure
Someone who obviously attended the CompStat meeting last week noticed something odd: Contact Cards are the be all and end all of CompStat and crime f…
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Speaking too Soon?
In the "Irony?" post a few slots down from this one, the Department is finally addressing the shootings issue. All year, shootings were wa…
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Ferguson Effect is Real
Especially in.....Ferguson : How did the Ferguson effect affect Ferguson, Mo., last year? Precisely as you would expect. The little city of 21,059 a…
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NYT Discovers CompStat Scandal
If the Old Gray Lady is writing about it , how much longer until someone makes a connection to McGee8's role in instituting it in New York and hi…
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Missing Propoganda
A reader asked another question that someone in the media should have done months ago: ...and where's the weekly Table Of Guns for the TV cameras…
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Not a Death Investigation?
Geez, the guy from New York who hid dozens of homicides by labeling them "death investigations" isn't even gone a week and this happens…
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Weekend Surpasses '15, '14 and '13
After starting slow, the thugs didn't disappoint: 2016 Labor Day weekend: 13 killed, 53 wounded 2015 Labor Day weekend: 10 killed, 46 wounded 201…
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Clearance Rate to Fall Farther
When are we going to kill all the lawyers ? Criminal defense lawyers are going to court to try to force the Chicago Police Department and other agen…
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