Government bureaucrats always want to give the impression that “crime is down” and have a history of manipulating crime statistics in order to hide their incompetence and give the public a false sense of security.
Atlanta
- ~ Audit finds police in Atlanta doctored statistics on crime / Figures may have helped city get Olympics – SF Gate
- ~ Report Finds Atlanta Police Cut Figures On Crimes – The New York Times
Baltimore
- ~ CRIME BY THE (POLICE) NUMBERS – Baltimore Sun
- ~ Peter Hermann: Downgrading rape cases historic problem – Baltimore Sun
Broward County
Chicago
~ Chicago’s top cop accused of manipulating crime statistics – Fox News Video – VIDEO
~ “City leaders manipulated crime statistics to create the appearance of a rapidly decreasing rate of crime.” – VIDEO
~ Newly Released Chicago Crime Numbers Raise Questions – YouTube
- ~ Chicago crime stats debated as magazine calls police claim of ‘progress’ an illusion – Fox News
- ~ Chicago Magazine Continues Expose Into CPDs Obsession (And Tinkering) With Crime Stats – The Chicagoist
- ~ Chicago Magazine Looks At Police Department’s Obsession (And Tinkering) With Major Crime Numbers – The Chicagoist
- ~ Chicago ‘Juking’ the Stats – Daily Kos
- ~ Chicago Murders Up 50%- Rahm Manipulating Murder Rate News 2014 – Daily Kos
- ~ Chicago Police Accused of Cooking Lower Crime Stats – Breitbart
- ~ Chicago Police Department Underreported Aggravated Assaults In 2012 – The Chicagoist
- ~ Chicago police play tricks with crime stats to lower crime numbers, report says – WGN-TV
- ~ Editor’s Note: The Big Stall: CPD’s response to our latest investigation should trouble every Chicagoan who cares about transparency in government – Chicago Magazine
- ~ Inspector General- Chicago police underreported aggravated assaults, batteries in 2012 – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Overall Chicago Crime Down, but Shootings and Murders Up in May 2020 – NBC Chicago
- ~ Morning Links: Chicago police accused of manipulating crime data – The Washington Post
- ~ Rahm’s Numbers Game- Is Killing People – Daily Kos
- ~ Report: Chicago’s Top Cop Cooking the Books on ‘Declining’ Crime Rate – Townhall
- ~ The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates – Chicago magazine
- ~ The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates- Part 2 – Chicago Magazine
- ~ The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates – Part 3: New Tricks: One year after we reported that the Chicago Police Department was undercounting the city’s murders, the problem persists—and top brass are up to some – Chicago Magazine
Dallas
D.C.
~ Internal documents, whistleblowers point to alleged underreporting of crime by DC Police – wusa9.com – VIDEO
~ Whistleblowers accuse DC Police of underreporting serious crimes on purpose – YouTube
~ Whistleblower calls out DC police crime stats – FOX 5 Washington DC – VIDEO
- ~ DC officer says department is massaging the numbers when it comes to violent crime – FOX 5 Washington DC
- ~ DC Police Chief- Multiple internal investigations into crime underreporting, but not a department-wide issue – MSN
- ~ Internal documents, whistleblowers point to alleged underreporting of crime by DC Police – wusa9.com
- ~ Whistleblower cops accuse DC police of downgrading crimes to look better on stats — RT USA News
Denver
~ CBS4 Investigation- Hundreds Of DPD Crime Reports Downgraded – YouTube
Detroit
Hidalgo County
Los Angeles
~ Downloading Local Crime Data for Los Angeles (LAPD) – YouTube
~ LAPD Accused of Fudging Crime Statistics – KFI AM 640 – PODCAST
~ LAPD captain accuses department of underreporting violent crimes – YouTube
~ LAPD Captain Accusing Department of ‘Cooking the Books’ Speaks – NBC Los Angeles – VIDEO
LAPD Captain Accusing Department of ‘Cooking the Books’ Speaks – NBC Los Angeles~ LAPD Chief Beck Discusses Alleged Underreporting of Crime: Part I – NBC Los Angeles – VIDEO
~ LAPD Chief Beck Discusses Alleged Underreporting of Crime- Part II – NBC Los Angeles – VIDEO
~ LAPD Chief Calls Crime Stats Accusations ‘Damn Lies’ – YouTube
~ LAPD Crime Stats – Los Angeles Times – VIDEO
~ LAPD Fudging Crime Stats – Press Play – KCRW – PODCAST
- ~ LAPD Accused of Fudging Crime Statistics – KFI AM 640
- ~ LAPD admits errors in how it reports crime statistics to the FBI – 89.3 KPCC
- ~ LAPD captain accuses department of twisting crime statistics to make city seem safer – Los Angeles Times ~ LAPD Captain Accuses Department of Underreporting Crime Statistics – NBC Los Angeles
- ~ LAPD Captain Accusing Department of ‘Cooking the Books’ Speaks – NBC Los Angeles
- ~ LAPD Captain Accusing Department of ‘Cooking the Books’ Speaks – NBC Los Angeles – VIDEO
- ~ LAPD chief calls Valley captain’s allegations of manipulated crime stats ‘damn lies’ – Daily News
- ~ LAPD continued to misclassify serious attacks last year, audit finds – Los Angeles Times ~ LAPD cooked the books to conceal crime under Bratton – New York Post
- ~ LAPD Cooking the Books on Serious Crimes, Los Angeles Times Investigation Suggests – Reason.com
- ~ LAPD cooking the books on violent crime rates? ‘Damn lies’ Chief Beck tells reporters – MyNewsLA.com
- ~ LAPD Fudging Crime Stats – Press Play – KCRW
- ~ LAPD misclassified thousands of crime statistics when current NYPD Commissioner Bratton led the department – New York Daily News
- ~ LAPD misclassified 1000+ crime statistics in 2012-13- LA Times report – ABC7 Los Angeles
- ~ LAPD misclassified more than 25,000 serious crimes as minor, audit finds – Los Angeles Times
- ~ LAPD Chief Calls Crime Underreporting Claims ‘Damn Lies’ – CBS Los Angeles
- ~ LAPD underreported serious assaults, skewing crime stats for 8 years – Los Angeles Times
- ~ Sidebar- Records show LAPD reclassified incidents – Los Angeles Times
- ~ ‘They are damn lies’: LAPD chief lashes out after captain accuses department of phony crime statistics – Los Angeles Times
- ~ Times Investigation- LAPD misclassified nearly 1,200 violent crimes as minor offenses – Los Angeles Times
- ~ Valley LAPD captain says department under-reported violent crime stats despite her sounding alarm – Los Angeles Daily News
Milwaukee
~ MPD whistleblower details alleged crime underreporting in the fir – wusa9.com – VIDEO
- ~ ‘It’s not OK to lie to the community’ | MPD whistleblower details alleged crime underreporting in the first interview – wusa9.com
- ~ MPD staff routinely changed crime codes – Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
New York City
~ NYC Crime Statistics – YouTube
- ~ 19 cops in NYPD’s 40th Precinct charged with fudging crime stats, commissioner says – Newsday
- ~ 19 NYPD cops face punishment after cooking crime books – New York Post
- ~ 19 Officers in NYPD’s 40th Pct Face Charges for Underreporting Crime Stats – Mott Haven – New York – DNAinfo
- ~ Accusations of cooking crime stats roil NYPD – The Denver Post
- ~ Another Brooklyn Precinct Probed for Fudging Crime Stats – The Village Voice
- ~ Brooklyn Cop: “Crime Statistics Are Lies” – Gothamist
- ~ Brooklyn’s 77th Precinct Probed For Crime Stat Manipulation – Gothamist
- ~ Brooklyn’s 77th Precinct probed for manipulating crime statistics – New York Daily News – Archive
- ~ Brooklyn’s 81st Precinct probed by NYPD for fudging stats; felonies allegedly marked as misdemeanors – New York Daily News
- ~ Bratton: ‘Shame On’ Ray Kelly For Accusations Of Fudging Crime Data – CBS New York
- ~ Cop on “The NYPD Tapes” Under Fire, But Community Meeting Is Calm – HuffPost
- ~ Crime rates are down in NYC — but you should still be worried – New York Post
- ~ Critics Wonder If NYPD Is Cooking Books To Lower Crime Stats – CBS New York
- ~ De Blasio Slams Former NYPD Comm. Kelly After Remarks On Shootings – CBS New York
- ~ Is The NYPD Playing With Crime Stats- – The Daily Caller.url
- ~ Manufacturing Low Crime Rates at the NYPD- Reputation Versus Safety Under Bloomberg and Kelly – HuffPost
- ~ New study calls into question the reliability of NYPD crime stats – Crime-Police – nola.com
- ~ New York Police Department Manipulates Crime Reports, Study Finds – The New York Times
- ~ NYPD Accuses Officers In The Bronx Of Cooking Crime Stats – Buzzfeed
- ~ NYPD brass pressuring cops to keep down crime stats: report – New York Daily News
- ~ NYPD captain claims some cops are fudging crime stats to advance their careers, igniting police investigation – New York Daily News
- ~ NYPD Cops Fudged Crime Stats in Compstat Model Program Now Used in 100s of US Cities – HuffPost
- ~ NYPD Crime Statistics Off by up to 229 Incidents a Month, Data Show – Civic Center – New York – DNAinfo
- ~ NYPD inspector general mum on ex-top cop Raymond Kelly’s claim that Commissioner Bill Bratton is cooking the books on crime – New York Daily News
- ~ NYPD Officers Face Stat-Fudging Charges – NBC New York
- ~ NYPD Officers Misrepresented Crime Figures, Commissioner Says – WSJ
- ~ NYPD report confirms manipulation of crime stats – Reuters
- ~ NYPD report supports claims by Adrian Schoolcraft, cop whistleblower – New York Daily News
- ~ NYPD stats were captain cooked – New York Post
- ~ NYPD’s Long War Over Crime Stats – WSJ
- ~ Police Tactc: Keeping Crime Reports Off the Books. N.Y.P.D. Leaves Offenses Unrecorded to Keep Crime Rates Down – The New York Times
- ~ Ray Kelly Accuses Bill Bratton of Manipulating NYPD Crime Stats, Just Like He Did – Gawker
- ~ Ray Kelly accuses Bratton of fudging ‘record low’ crime stats – New York Post
- ~ Retired Officers Raise Questions on Crime Data Integrity – The New York Times
- ~ The NYPD Tapes Confirmed – The Village Voice
- ~ The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy’s 81st Precinct – The Village Voice
- ~ The NYPD Underreported Rape Due to an Outdated Definition of the Crime – Reason.com
- ~ The NYPD’s Biggest Problem Might Actually Be an Overreliance on Numbers. A recent survey of retired New York City police officers suggests the department’s culture has shifted toward data manipulation – Bloomberg
- ~ Why Was a Grim Report on Police-Involved Deaths Never Released? A review shows that the number of people killed by police activity in New York is more than twice what has been reported (2020) – The New York Times
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburg, CA
- ~ Pittsburg: Did police fabricate crime stats to burnish city’s image? – The Mercury News
- ~ Former Officer Claims Pittsburg Police Are Fudging Crime Stats – CBS San Francisco
Australia
- ~ Gold Coast police accused of fudging figures, pretending to solve crimes – 9News
- ~ Ombudsman to probe police crime fudging – The Sydney Morning Herald
- ~ Police fudge figures to improve rates of solved crimes- report – The Sydney Morning Herald
- ~ Police fudging crime statistics – The Sydney Morning Herald
UK
- ~ Crime statistics are manipulated, says police chief – BBC News
- ~ Crime stats: The truth is out there – BBC News
- ~ How we can’t trust the crime figures: After Plebgate, now watchdog says police statistics are unreliable – Daily Mail Online
- ~ Police crime figures lose official status over claims of fiddling – UK – The Guardian
- ~ Police crime figures being manipulated, admits chief inspector – UK – The Guardian
- ~ Police officers routinely fiddle crime figures, MPs are told – The Telegraph
- ~ Statistics watchdog to launch review of official data over crime fudging fears – The Independent
- ~ Cooking the Books on Crime Statistics – LewRockwell
- ~ Fudge factor- Cooking the books on crime stats – Police1
- ~ Just Like in “The Wire,” Real FBI Crime Stats Are “Juked” – Mother Jones
- ~ Slight uptick in crime, underreporting possible – The Columbia Chronicle
- ~ The Naked Truth (HUGE Broward Sheriff’s Office Scandal Over Phony Crime Stats) – Free Republic
- ~ What Happens When People Panic About Crime Rates – ThinkProgress
- ~ What’s Really Going On With Crime Rates – POLICE Magazine
~ The Wire- Fix The Crime Statistics…or… – YouTube
~ The Wire – Daniels Has Had Enough – YouTube
Reports
- ~ REPORT OF THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL: CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT ASSAULT-RELATED CRIME STATISTICS CLASSIFICATION AND REPORTING AUDIT – PDF
- ~ The Relationship Between Crime Reporting and Police: Implications for the Use of Uniform Crime Reports – 1998 – PDF
- ~ Police Manipulations of Crime Reporting: Insiders’ Revelations – PDF
- ~ Police Manipulations of Crime Reporting- Insiders’ Revelations – Justice Quarterly – Sci-Hub.se – PDF
- ~ THE REPORT OF THE CRIME REPORTING REVIEW COMMITTEE TO COMMISSIONER RAYMOND W. KELLY CONCERNING COMPASTAT AUDITING – (2013) – NYC.GOV – PDF