Police recording of crime: mandated productivity

[flagg]

Must be contagious, as minimizing crime statistics was recently a news story down here in NZ too.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/politi...on-crime-stats

[davidbfpo]

I have read quite a few press reports on the consequences in New York city following the murder of two officers, notably the apparent "grass roots" mandated non-productivity - mandated by their PBA one assumes:

For the week of 22 December, citywide traffic tickets dropped 94% from the same period in 2013. Court summons for low-level offences, like public intoxication, also dropped 94%. Parking tickets were down 92%. Overall arrests were down 66%, as well.

Even the BBC has done an in-depth report:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-echochambers-30659528

A NY Post columnist has a scathing piece, from this distance I assume that paper didn't like the Mayor before:http://nypost.com/2015/01/01/de-blasios-cop-out/

[ganulv]

The Post will dislike whomever necessary on the day in question in order to sell more copies.

I really enjoyed Matt Taibi’s Rolling Stone piece on the slowdown, with my favorite bit quoted below.

If you’re wondering exactly what that means, the Post is reporting that the protesting police have decided to make arrests “only when they have to.” (Let that sink in for a moment. Seriously, take 10 or 15 seconds).

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...rreal-20141231

[davidbfpo]

A short, eighteen minute film by ESPN 'How The NYPD Abused Citizens In The Name of Data, And How One Cop exposed It':

..tells the story of Adrian Schoolcraft. Schoolcraft, as a New York Police Department officer, blew the whistle on the NYPD’s abuse and misuse of CompStat, a system to track crime trends in New York City.

Link:http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...posed-it-all/?

It was released three weeks ago and I have not watched it yet.