Saturday, December 31, 2011

N.Y.P.D. Leaves Offenses Unrecorded to Keep Crime Rates Down - NYTimes.com

Institutional information irresponsibility, Law-and-Order Division:

Crime victims in New York sometimes struggle to persuade the police to write down what happened on an official report. The reasons are varied. Police officers are often busy, and few relish paperwork. But in interviews, more than half a dozen police officers, detectives and commanders also cited departmental pressure to keep crime statistics low.

N.Y.P.D. Leaves Offenses Unrecorded to Keep Crime Rates Down - NYTimes.com

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