Tom Barrett Touted False Crime Statistics

By John McCormack

Published May 23, 2012 5:06pm ET

Tom Barrett Touted False Crime Statistics — An investigation by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reveals that since 2009 more than 500 incidents of violent crime in the city of Milwaukee were misreported as minor assaults: When Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn touted the city’s fourth-straight year of falling crime in February, hundreds of beatings, stabbings and child abuse cases were missing from […]

An investigation by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reveals that since 2009 more than 500 incidents of violent crime in the city of Milwaukee were misreported as minor assaults:

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