November 22nd 2014

The Truth About Chicago's Crime Rates

The city's drop in crime has been nothing short of miraculous.
Here's what's behind the unbelievable numbers.

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Things may not be always exactly what they are made out to be! This is Part One of an extensive analysis of the situation, with a Part Two written later. This archive page contains other related items (scroll down).

By David Bernstein and Noah Isackson. April 7th, 2014

Many officers of different ranks and from different parts of the city recounted instances in which they were asked or pressured by their superiors to reclassify their incident reports or in which their reports were changed by some invisible hand. One detective refers to the "magic ink": the power to make a case disappear. Says another: "The rank and file don't agree with what's going on. The powers that be are making the changes."

Granted, a few dozen crimes constitute a tiny percentage of the more than 300,000 reported in Chicago last year. But sources describe a practice that has become widespread, while top police brass have become fixated on demonstrating improvement in Chicago's woeful crime statistics......... -->

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