Friday, August 17, 2007

Number shuffling reduces Dallas crime rate by 3 percent

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DALLAS — The department conducted an extensive review of its reporting procedures and has found issues that require adjustments be made to insure the Department is reporting the most accurate crime data possible.

A portion of this review revealed that the Dallas Police Department was not properly applying the “time and place” exception in the UCR guidelines, when reporting property crimes to the FBI. The Department adopted this process and reviewed several offense categories back to January 2007.

The review resulted in a total reduction of over 1700 offenses. The outcome is an approximate 3% reduction in overall index crimes.

The purpose of the enhancement is to ensure the most accurate data is collected and distributed to the public.

Source: DPD

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terryorze Anonymous

Now if they just stop taking reports for every crime reported Dallas can be the safest city in the country again!

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Mike Orren Staff

Terry, that would seem to be be the tack, given this http://Dallas.org report:

http://www.dallas.org/node/334

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Sam Clark Verified

Why does every article have to say "most crime-ridden major city in America..."? Does everyone have an ax to grind against Dallas?

Are we to believe a city has to count 1 million residents in order to be considered major? I guess so, if the writer's real purpose is not a fair comparison but just to make Dallas look bad.

Bulletin for people in Atlanta, Detroit, Boston, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Seattle, etc. You don't live in a major city.

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