U.S. News and World Report (April 24, 2000) said, ''facing political heat to cut crime in the city, investigators in the New York PPD's Sex Crime Unit sat on (thousands of) reports of rapes and other sexual assaults.''
One officer snarled; ''The way crime was solved was with an eraser.''
In 2000 even the FBI admitted that one district ''failed to report between 13,000 and 37,000 major crimes.''
''A 2000 Philadelphia Inquirer report found from 1997-1999, of 300,000 sex crime reports, thousands of rapes got relabeled ''investigation of persons'' or ''investigation, protection, and medical examination'' – non-crime codes.''
''This puts one in four rapes in a non-crime category.''
Lying sure reduces rape!
Other real men confirm additional cover-ups.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, U.S. Army (Ret.) a renowned expert in human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime, and a West Point psychology professor says:
''The downturn in violent crime in the U.S. in the 1990s is very deceptive. Violent crime … is still about 5 times greater today, per capita, than it was in 1957.''
''Plus, a five-fold increase in per capita incarceration is holding down violent crime – we'd have to let 1.5 million convicted offenders go to get down to a 1970's-level incarceration rate.''
On Grossman's point, The National Institute of Justice Managing Adult Sex Offenders (1997) reported:
''The number of adults convicted annually of rape, child molestation, or other forms of sexual assault and sentenced to state prisons more than doubled between 1980 (8,000) and 1992 (19,100). In 1994, state prisons held 88,100 sex offenders compared to 20,500 in 1980.''
Noting the millions taking high-powered antidepressants like Prozac, Grossman observes, ''we medicate, incarcerate and police ourselves at rates never seen before.''
Yet, he says, the biggest factor for lower crime rates is that ''we are lying about the data.''
''The ''Crimestat'' program made cops accountable for bringing down crime ... When the NYPD police union went over the data the crime rates doubled in New York City if the proper classifications were applied.''
Other than murder (held down by medical technology), the pressure on the cop on the beat means ''police artificially 'bring crime down' and the root causes of the crime get off scott free, because we cook the books.''
Denver Police Lt. James D. Ponzi, a Regis University professor and author of ''Compstat Revealed,'' is quoted in ''The American Police Beat,'' May 2005:
''In 1998, Sharon Schieber was raped and murdered.'' The lawsuit her parents filed ''revealed the practice of downgrading sexual crimes. Compstat turned into ''Compscam'' as departments cooked the books to lower crime rates.''
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and it goes on.....
often when we talk about rape on du, a small number of men consistently tell women we need to stfu because FBI have the figures of raped reduced to such a low number. and many people recite this in the media. no one discusses the real issues. when i present this, it is readily ignored by those men and they continue to tell women they have no gripe because the fbi shows rape has decreased.
in the fbi report they state that really, the numbers can be from 30%-70% low. that they really have no idea.
this does not help the issue. it allows a lot of people to dismiss the problems for women.
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