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You can always report an homicide as a suicide. You will have an increase suicide rate, but it won't effect the criminal rate.
by Kesty 11y ago
You can always report an homicide as a suicide.
You will have an increase suicide rate, but it won't effect the criminal rate.
- cmdkeen 11y agoExcept that's a really serious felony far and above other statistics fiddling, Baltimore at its worst didn't go that far - you're making yourself an accessory to murder after the fact. Not only would you have Federal authorities getting interested quickly but you have pesky family members raising queries about how their loved one shot themselves to death 34 times on a street corner. Even in the darkest days of Baltimore I don't think there were allegations of homicides being declared as suicides.
- anthony_d 11y agoJust to be pedantic: in it's darkest days the police in Baltimore commit murder. It's naive to think the police would never do something purely because it's really bad. I will agree that from a practical standpoint it seems far fetched to think they could get away with mislabeling homicides on any significant scale.
- CPLX 11y agoYou can sometimes report a homicide as a suicide. Not very often, given things like the relative unpopularity of multiple gunshot wounds from a moving car as a suicide method, and so on.
- __z 11y agoI have no data for this (other than watching TV) but reporting homicide as suicide is probably more likely due to incompetence rather than malice.
- kabouseng 11y agoAnd if the victim has life insurance, reporting a homicide as a suicide has insurance consequences, the family would provide resistance to.