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Democrats Lie About Violent Crime to Beat Scott Walker

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 24th, 2012 at 08:45 AM  | 

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They thought it would help Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, running as the Democrat against Governor Scott Walker in the Wisconsin Recall. If the headlines said Milwaukee had lowered its violent crime rate under Barrett’s leadership, well then he must be a real leader. So that’s what the headline said. Only problem was it is a lie. Crime has not gotten better. State and local officials are demanding an audit of the Milwaukee Police Department’s crime numbers.

The Journal Sentinel found enough misreported cases in 2011 alone that violent crime would have increased 1.1% instead of falling 2.3% from the reported 2010 figures, which had their own errors.

Dozens of misclassified assaults were sent to FBI crime reporting experts, who confirmed that they should have been marked as aggravated assaults, which are counted in the city’s violent crime rate.

When even violent crime becomes a political topic to be fudged in advance of the left’s agenda, you know the situation has gone Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull bad for them. Oh, and we are at 7 of the 7 most recent polls having Scott Walker ahead of Tom Barrett.

Thanks unions for blowing all your cash and credibility in Wisconsin!

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  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    “The One”, Walker is happy to run on his record. Walker’s record has the democrats, unions and Barrett staggering about like a dying chicken with it’s head cut off.

  • rsjt

    (fill in the blank)

  • edintexas

    NT

  • wilgolden

    Democrats Lie.

    Tornados target trailer parks.

    It’s what they do.

    Duh.

  • http://MichaelHarrington.org Michael Harrington

    Portland Oregon has made an art out of avoiding crime statistics

    It has various levels

    1) Take your time to make the report.
    By making a victim wait half a day or so before an officer arrives for a report they get most victims to give up reporting new crimes.

    2) When the victim is insistant on their rights to the incident they will make a ‘contact report’. Often they will make a show of handcuffing the person and then releasing him a few blocks away if it means to much paperwork or if the crime is a low level misdemeanor.

    3) The police rarely arrest victimless crimes (except drugs). This includes when damage or theft of property is unreported by the victim despite clear evidence and a witness that a crime had occured.

    4) Anyone knowledgable and wanting to back their rights will get chewed out if they keep making reports (except big business security since the police know those places have lawyers).

    5) If an arrest has been made with multiple charges including assault an offer to drop the assault charge almost always seems to occur if the defendent pleads guilty to a non-assault charge.

    6) The City of Portland rolls over when a small judge says they are mistreating criminals by requiring bunk beds

    7) Some criminals do not get charged at all or for a very long time. One guy was caught stealing over 100 cars (seperately) before he was finally charged with a single count of grand theft auto.

    Now the police will tell you they get screamed at by their superiors if they make to many arrests.

    Their superiors will say the DA blacklists officers who make to many low level arrests which are hard to prosecute.

    The DA will say it is because a judge is limiting jail space.

    The judge will say it is the politicians who won’t open more jail space.

    The politician says that there are not enough arrests to warrant using the beds in a new, yet unoccupied facility…

    That’s the Portland circle of criminal life. Add in a half dozen early release programs and you know why I call it a joke.

  • Tbone

    to find an honest Democrat politician. (Not that he would be in much danger of tripping over an honest Republican in the process)

  • Common_Cents

    nt