Everything dems say, needs to be taken with a massive pile of salt.
Former sergeant’s lawsuit claimed police leadership downgraded felonies to mask crime levels.
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"In one tactic, theft and shoplifting incidents were labeled “Taking Property Without Right,” an offense not counted in the city’s reported crime data. After this directive, such classifications rose by 500%,....
Former MPD lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky, now serving a four-year prison sentence for covering up a murder, admitted in court that these changes were made to obscure crime from public view.....
2019, MPD Captain Franklin Porter allegedly ordered officers not to classify crimes such as robberies, burglaries, felony assaults, or assaults with dangerous weapons as felonies, ...
In one case, a woman who sustained a deep facial wound was officially recorded as a “Sick person to the hospital” rather than a victim of assault with a deadly weapon."