Statistical Scandal
More than a hundred retired New York Police Department captains and higher-ranking officers said in a survey that the intense pressure to produce annual crime reductions led some supervisors and precinct commanders to manipulate crime statistics, according to two criminologists studying the department.
The retired members of the force reported that they were aware over the years of instances of “ethically inappropriate” changes to complaints of crimes in the seven categories measured by the department’s signature CompStat program, according to a summary of the results of the survey and interviews with the researchers who conducted it.
Since this Department has "borrowed" or outright stolen just about every policing idea to come out of the Big Apple...nah, that couldn't happen here. Could it?
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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CPD "command" supervisors
Killing crime since forever
Don't worry citizens
I'm getting pissed off
Karma is a MF'er
Fricking Hillard brought the compstat to cpd. Once again thank him for initiating this mess.
We have been killing crime in this city since the early '70's.
Nothing new here, move along!
"The former officers indicate that it was the intense pressure brought to bear on the commanders in twice-weekly CompStat meetings —where they are grilled, and sometimes humiliated, before their peers and subordinates, and where careers and promotions can be made or lost — that drove some to make “unethical” and “highly unethical” alterations to crime reports.
The challenges that his retired members had faced — and his active members still face — were significant, as crime continues to decline and precinct commanders must continue to beat their previous year’s performance despite a force with thousands fewer officers."
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Taken from the article. Does this not sound exactly like CPD? Do more with less? Exempt smoke and mirrors to the superintendent staff at meetings? I'm so damn sick of it. They made me hate being a Chicago policeman.
42 extra-short just flat out stole every idea from the "New Yawkahs" when he conducted his sham interviews for supernintendo. Bratton & Co. dropped the ball by not copyrighting their stuff to prevent shorty from stealing it and misapplying it in half-ass typical Chicago fashion of doing shit on the cheap and cheerful.
The next slate of potential candidates should consider themselves warned!
Shorty should be on the hook for multi-millions out of his own stinking pockets for theft/copyright infringement and all that other intellectual property jazz...
Fucking stub fingered,thieving-ass carny!
Hide your women, children and female animals!
http://nypdconfidential.com/
Read what the NYPD allegedly did to an officer who came forward with these accusations.
Unfrigginbelievable.
I remember the DOC meetings with Phil and all that meaningless nonsense. It was nonsense then and it is nonsense now.
The only people stupid enough to buy Weis's bullshit stats are the fucking media. They are starting to ignore them though. THESE stupid fudged stats are his only triumph in this inept administration. Violence against police is up, burglary is up, robbery is up and violence against
chicago humanity is up. EVEN the city of Gary used the same model and said they are experiencing less crime! Big city corruption is incredible!!!!!!!
Comstat is a good program. Every good idea in policing has come out of NY. Hillard couldn't think of a good program to save his life. He brought in a modified version that was a sham. Name one district commander under Hillard that was removed because crime was up in their district?
I hope Schoolcraft sues the hell out of NYPD and NYC. It does sound like something that was done in the old USSR. It's hard to believe that this is being done in the US and especially to a police officer who only wanted the truth to come out.
This shit has been going on for a long, long time here in Shitcago.
A couple examples off the top of my coconut: Getting shot at, but not hit, USED to be an Aggravated Battery.
Stealing a family member's car USED to be another hash mark in the "Auto Theft" column. Now it's what? Some NON-CRIMINAL classification?
And why the hell do you think the collective Illinois brain trust raised the age of what's considered a "juvenile" ? There are just too many tangents to explore and hypothesize on this asinine change in the law, but it's more "smoke & mirrors" any way you slice it.
I hope someone, somewhere, has been compiling stats, notes, recordings, directives and minutes documenting the manipulation of crime statistics within the CPD's upper-echelon.
It'd bring a smile to my face to see some type of scandal take out a few "shepherds" instead of the usual blue shirt sheep.
Don't worry boys and girls Chicago is all legit! J-fed and daley say so,and who could'nt trust these 2 stellar citizens? LOL!
I thought JFed was his personal animal...
Routine here in city.
Attempt burglary = crim dam to property
Robbery = theft from person
Murder = Death Investigation
PSMV = Criminal trespass to veh
So what else is new???
They do this every day on the CPD. It's a secret quota system and we all know it. Why do you think they make us do fake missions all day?
Explains their great crime statistics. Ours too for that matter.
Garage burglary_Crimanal Damage
Anonymous said...
Fricking Hillard brought the compstat to cpd. Once again thank him for initiating this mess.
2/08/2010 12:43:00 AM
Best boss of this department in my career. Better then Martin, Rodriguez,Cline, and the Agent.
Martin and Rodriguez were so far over their heads they did not what to do.
Cline promoted a fucking detective to Deputy Chief enough said.
Wiess total idiot.
We do not classify Deaths Cook County Medical Examiner does. We can make it a Death Investigation but they can rule it a Homicide.
Our girl Pam Zekman did a story on "killing crime" in the 70's or early 80's. Nothing new!!!!!!!
Ask Lee Epplen and Neil Sullivan about killing crime.
Anonymous said...
We do not classify Deaths Cook County Medical Examiner does. We can make it a Death Investigation but they can rule it a Homicide.
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The Medical Examiner is not bound by the rules of crime reporting. We are.
"Best boss of this department in my career. Better then Martin, Rodriguez,Cline, and the Agent.
Martin and Rodriguez were so far over their heads they did not what to do.
Cline promoted a fucking detective to Deputy Chief enough said.
Wiess total idiot."
I would have to concur. Wasn't totally happy with Hillard, but he was tops over all the bosses you mentioned. Cline blatantly threw the regulations for promotions in the faces of those who complied by returning to college, etc. when he promoted
that foot post guy in 014 to Sgt, and his old pal Cronin, who was practically illiterate, to Commander, and later to Deputy Chief. Let's not forget his driver to Sgt., who later returned to headquarters as Cline's "Sgt. Driver." Cline did a lot of good for the Dept, but he went way overboard in taking care of his friends. Friends should never embarrass the boss, friends of the boss should make the boss look good. Didn't happen with Phat Phil.
Weis was (and is), in a word, unqualified. It's never stopped anyone from advancement before here, but we've never been so out of balance as a Dept. for so Goddamn long. Bringing in Masters, and keeping O'Keefe didn't help us any. It will take the better part of a decade to bring this Dept. back to any semblance of what we used to be.
Many of the people who care about this Dept. will be long gone by then, with most of them likely bailing out this year. The Mayor and his City Hall cronies have brought this once great CPD to its knees.
Whatever classification number the review office writes on the pink copy of the case report is what it is
The commander will tell them what to write, too.
I wonder if people are told to change classifications in AIRA that often....
We had a big scandal over "downgrading" back in the early '90s, if I recall correctly.
Did anyone learn anything? Of course not!
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