Houston Mayor John Whitmire said today that he believes crime data for the city has been manipulated for nearly the past decade, but he vowed to get to the bottom of whoever is responsible. He also vows to fix the issue.
While he wouldn’t go into detail, some of our research shows significant discrepancies with major crimes like rape and homicide.
“First, I want to apologize to those victims,” Whitmire said. “The City of Houston let them down, under four police chiefs, an administration serving eight years. This wrongful coding of incidents and suspensions because of lack of staffing was a terrible mistake.”revealed last week that he found the Houston Police Department’s crime stats did not match those of the National Incident Based Reporting system, which is maintained by the FBI.
“I think the credibility of previous statements by the City of Houston about ‘ crime was going in the right direction,’ It’s been revealed that that was a spin,” Whitmire said. “The credibility of the data collected by HPD and released to the public for at least the last eight years is flawed,” Whitmire said.
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