In one year, the Los Angeles Police Department misclassified more than a thousand violent crimes -- like beatings, stabbings and robberies -- as minor offenses. That’s according to a new Los Angeles Times investigation. The paper found that the department rarely misclassified in the opposite direction -- in other words, from minor to serious. That suggests the misclassification was done to paint a picture of a city that is safer than it really is.
LAPD Misclassifying Violent Crimes
Credits
Guest:
Joel Rubin - Los Angeles Times -
@joelrubin
Host:
Madeleine Brand
Producers:
Andrew Walsh,
Christian Bordal,
Matt Holzman,
Jolie Myers,
Anna Scott