LAPD Misclassified Hundreds of Violent Crimes as Minor Offenses
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More violent neighborhoods may appear safer on paper, and therefore have less police presence. (Shay Sowdon, Wikimedia Commons)
Violent crime statistics were artifically deflated, to the detriment of the police and the public.
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