Saturday, February 06, 2010

YIPES: Retired Police: NY Crime Stats Manipulated, Fabricated via http://Gothamist.com

Days after a Brooklyn cop and a Queens politician accused the police of cooking its crime statistics, a survey of more than one hundred retired NYPD higher-ups showed that cops—who are under constant pressure to produce happy-looking stats—have routinely fabricated or manipulated their data, since the crime analysis system was put into place in 1995. And, the statistics they produce are the very same that Bloomberg quotes when he says the city is safe, and getting safer every year. “

Cops that lie.

Lovely.

And we're supposed to trust the boys in blue now?

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