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> According to LAPD This is a trustworthy source of information?
by topspin 5y ago
> According to LAPD
This is a trustworthy source of information?
- andrewmunsell 5y agoThe LA Police Department?
- wayoutthere 5y agoHistory says no.
- ruined 5y agowell, last year in every discussion about the "retail theft wave" people would bring up police statistics indicating only a modest rise or actual decline, and were thus criticized for assuming accuracy. so, let's just exercise the same skepticism here
- baggy_trough 5y agoIt's probably greatly understated.
- topspin 5y agoThe whole notion that it's even possible to credibly measure property crime in a place like LA is farcical even absent the institutional corruption and incompetence of the LAPD. The numbers are political fiction.
- ultrarunner 5y agoFor only one example, Buckeye, Arizona was accused of misreporting crime statistics to make it the safest place in Arizona for a while [0]. I'm sure this happens to some extent throughout many jurisdictions, and the idea of the LAPD reporting favorable statistics doesn't seem far fetched at all. [0] https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/are-buckeyes-low-violent-crime-stats-too-good-to-be-true https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/are-buc...