Thursday, May 24, 2012

Tom Barrett Cooking The Books?

Tom Barrett, the slimey and worthless canditate running against Gov. Scott Walker in the Wisconsin recall election may have been cooking the books when it comes to crime statistics in Milwaukee, WI., where Barrett pretends he is the mayor of the city.
From jsonline: Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday joined state and city officials in calling for an independent audit of Milwaukee police crime data after a Journal Sentinel investigation found more than 500 serious assaults that were misclassified by the department as lesser offenses.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said any flaws found in the Police Department's crime numbers should be revised.
"Of course if the numbers are wrong, we will correct them," said Barrett, who is facing Walker in the June 5 recall election.
The Journal Sentinel investigation also discovered an additional 800 cases since 2009 that follow the same pattern but couldn't be verified with available public records. Copies of those incident reports have been sought from police through an open records request.
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 they should have been marked as aggravated assaults, which are counted in the city's violent crime rate. Police officials agreed that a sample of assault cases shared by the Journal Sentinel were misreported.
Walker's call for an audit came a day after state and local officials called for independent audits of the Milwaukee police crime data.
State Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) requested a review by the Legislative Audit Bureau while Milwaukee aldermen Joe Dudzik and Bob Donovan called for the city comptroller's office to conduct its own audit.  http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/barrett-said-police-department-will-correct-any-faulty-numbers-6f5hp81-153670285.html
One of Barrett's campaign issues in the recall is that Barrett claims that crime has decreased since he became mayor.  Well, that turned out to be a lie, much like the entire Democratic recall effort.  The whole recall effort has been based on lies and deceit.  So, I guess, what is one more lie?

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