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Mayor & Police Chief's Longtime Claims That “Crime Is Down” Bogus ...

A2PNotes: This is filed under “Scoops & Scores” because you read it here first.

In answer to how often the officers on Ann Arbor’s police department simply skip the step of filing official police reports, a source within the AAPD told A2Politico : “Probably four times per month and all of the officers are doing this. We are just stretched so thin. We want to get to the people, you know?”

Ann Arbor mayor John Hieftje has a mantra, and it’s “crime is down.” He has used it to justify early retirement offered to two dozen officers—a retirement gambit that a city financial staffer confirmed resulted in an over $8 million deficit in the city’s General Fund in 2009. The gap that was closed by cutting citizen services, raising fees and slashing the size of the Fire Department. Hieftje has used “crime is down” to justify laying off police officers. He has used “crime is down” to convince taxpayers that they are just as safe as they were when the city had 100 more officers. Like George W. Bush, whose mantra was “there were weapons of mass destruction,” AAPD sources say that Hieftje’s mantra is a lie that is putting the citizens whom they have sworn to protect at a higher risk of being victimized.

At the August 4, 2011 City Council meeting Hieftje claimed that the recent attacks/rapes in Ann Arbor of six women in a seven-day period—sex crimes which the FBI were asked to help investigate—have “nothing to do with the level of crime.” Watch a video of his comments below.

The Uniform Crime Reports compiled and then released by the FBI are drawn from information submitted by individual cities. In essence, the FBI rely on self-reporting and the honor system. Elected officials and police chiefs who wanted to manipulate crime statistics could do it several ways, and members of the Ann Arbor Police Department allege that Ann Arbor’s department is doing just that, misrepresenting crime statistics to make it appear as though crime in our city is down from five years ago, when the Department had 100 more officers.

It is a serious allegation, as false information fed to the federal officials could open up local officials in a city or its police department to serious scrutiny from federal officials and, perhaps, charges of public corruption. The Obama administration has made quite clear that it takes charges of local and state governmental corruption and fraud quite seriously.

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