Milwaukee Police Department misreporting violent assaults

“Echoing the findings of a Journal Sentinel investigation last month, Ben Poston reports that more than 5,300 violent assaults have been misreported since 2006, according to Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn whom told a Common Council committee Thursday.”

“An internal department audit shows that 20% of aggravated assaults were underreported as lesser offenses that didn’t get counted in the city’s violent crime rate during that time.”