DETROIT POLICE CRIME STATS - UNTRUTHFUL, PHONY, NOT CREDIBLE

DETROIT CRIME STATS are UNTRUTHFUL, PHONY, INACCURATE...etc etc.

For Mayor Bing to say with a straight face and apparent sincerity that "Our DPD data show an overall DECREASE, in major crime categories, despite an increase in the homicidee rate" shows that Mayor Bing is out of touch with the crime rate that is destroying Detroit and forcing residents to flee the city. Bing is tone deaf and ignorant of how dangerous the neighborhoods are - how frustrated police officers and residents are with the oppressive crime rate.

Detroit cannot give out accurate crime stats - because- DPD cannot collect accurate data - former PC Ella Bully-Cummings closed 50% of all precincts and x-disgraced PC Godbee closed the remaining precincts for 16 hours, and the inability of police officers to respond to crime scenes makes crime stats inherently inaccurate - do to UNDERREPORTING. Telephone Crime Reporting is not credible for residents and the recently publicized reopening of Mini Stations is phony public relations garbage, and a failed experiment from the Coleman Young era.

Detroit needs a new outside Police Chief - a Mayor and City Council that makes public safety the #1 issue in Detroit.

ps. Charley LeDuff - I think the population of Detroit is closer to 600,000 than 690,000 - so the homicide rate is even worse based on number per 100,000. Keep up the good work..