Retired Officers Raise Questions on Crime Data

The New York Times

Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1995 with William J. Bratton, left, who instituted CompStat. A police spokesman criticized a survey of hundreds of retired police officials.

More than a hundred retired New York Police Department captains and higher-ranking officers said in a survey that the intense pressure to produce annual crime reductions led some supervisors and precinct commanders to manipulate crime statistics, according to two criminologists studying the department.

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