- An anonymous survey of nearly 2,000 retired officers found that the manipulation of crime reports — downgrading crimes to lesser offenses and discouraging victims from filing complaints to make crime statistics look better — has long been part of the culture of the New York Police Department.
The results showed that pressure on officers to artificially reduce crime rates, while simultaneously increasing summonses and the number of people stopped and often frisked on the street, has intensified in the last decade, the two criminologists who conducted the research said in interviews this week.
“I think our survey clearly debunks the Police Department’s rotten-apple theory,” said Eli B. Silverman, one of the criminologists, referring to arguments that very few officers manipulated crime statistics. “This really demonstrates a rotten barrel.”
So is it only a matter of time before McCompStat himself is tossed out on his ear for bringing this totally corrupt and bullshit system to Chicago? Rahm hates being lied to although he seems to have no problem if he's the one spreading the manure. But being sold a bill of goods on an entire policing system as the homicide numbers continue to climb makes it harder to stick with the lie that "crime is down across the board."