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Results for crime statistics (milwaukee, u.s.)
1 results foundAuthor: PRI Management Group Title: Independent Audit of Milwaukee Police Crime Statistics and Reporting Procedure Summary: A. The first objective of this audit was to obtain sufficient and appropriate evidence to provide an expert opinion regarding the validity of the police department’s internal audit and its findings which focused on the assault category. It is not an objective of this audit to determine Milwaukee crime rates and increases or decreases thereof. B. The second objective is to assess the police department’s police reporting and records management processes, protocols and records management system (RMS), and provide an expert opinion regarding whether these elements have affected the Department’s compliance with NIBRS assault reporting standards and if so, how. C. The third objective is to provide an expert opinion regarding whether any intentional efforts were undertaken by the police department and its personnel to manipulate or misrepresent crime statistical information. V. SCOPE AND METHODOLOGIES The scope of this audit encompassed a thorough review of Milwaukee Police policy, protocol, data, and procedure including a review of a sampling of police incident reports from 2006-2012. In order to meet the objectives stated above a comprehensive review was conducted not only of police reports and statistics themselves, but also of the processes and systems used to produce them. This 360 degree approach, which enabled the audit to both reveal and rule out what has caused the inaccuracies, included analyzing the entire reporting process, employee’s knowledge of NIBRS standards, training levels, and the RMS system and its code tables. It is widely known there are errors in the statistics and the focus as such is to determine what caused them. It has been determined as a result of this audit that while it is correct there were inaccuracies in the crime statistics, the allegations inferring the Milwaukee Police Department had intentionally altered them are baseless. The Milwaukee Police Department is not hiding crimes, erasing statistics or undertaking other efforts to present a false picture of crime in the city. When someone reports a crime in Milwaukee the fact of the matter is, it gets recorded. While the crime category that the incident gets listed in has clearly been problematic, the record of the crime doesn’t disappear. In simplest terms, even when reports are misclassified they are still on the books. Police departments maintain and report statistics in 2 ways. One set of statistics gets reported to the FBI according to their reporting rules which include standardized definitions and methodologies specific to NIBRS. What the public needs to understand is that all of the police reports and their corresponding statistics are still present in the records management system and can be researched at any given time. With the exception of those records which are confidential according to public records law, anyone can request to see this information. This data remains independent of the FBI standards and definitions; definitions which do not coincide with state statutes in many cases. To truly lower crime artificially and successfully conceal the effort, reports of crimes to the police would have to be erased from the multiple places the information simultaneously resides including departmental databases, computer-aided dispatch systems, records management systems, back-up media, phone recordings and mobile computers. Details: Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission, 2012. 139p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 12, 2013 at: http://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cityFPC/Reports/MilwaukeeReportFinalwithAppend.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cityFPC/Reports/MilwaukeeReportFinalwithAppend.pdf Shelf Number: 129630 Keywords: Crime Statistics (Milwaukee, U.S.)Police Policies and ProceduresRecords ManagementUniform Crime Reports |