http://www.detnews.com/article/20090...micides/?imw=Y

A thorough look at the 2008 homicide statistics reveals other omissions:


• In one case, the police reclassified a homicide as a suicide.
• Two men were stabbed to death, but were not included due to "insufficient evidence."
• A man who was beaten to death, according to the medical examiner, died by accident, according to the police.
• A baby beaten to death never made the homicide tally, nor did a man who was found shot in the head.
Detroit = The Wire

Got to juke the stats, we can't pull those bodies out of the rowhouses!

Since this has been going on for years, it's safe to say that homicide tallies for previous years for the City of Detroit are almost certainly too low. And if this is going on for murders, what other serious crimes are being swept under the rug to keep the stats lower? The sad part is, if a murder is reclassified as a suicide or an accident, then it isn't being investigated and a MURDERER gets to walk free.