The chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found

[swag]

Source: Miami Herald

By Charles Rabin, Jay Weaver And David Ovalle

The indictment was damning enough: A former police chief of Biscayne Park and two officers charged with falsely pinning four burglaries on a teenager just to impress village leaders with a perfect crime-solving record.

But the accusations revealed in federal court last month left out far uglier details of past policing practices in tranquil Biscayne Park, a leafy wedge of suburbia just north of Miami Shores.

Records obtained by the Miami Herald suggest that during the tenure of former chief Raimundo Atesiano, the command staff pressured some officers into targeting random black people to clear cases.

“If they have burglaries that are open cases that are not solved yet, if you see anybody black walking through our streets and they have somewhat of a record, arrest them so we can pin them for all the burglaries,” one cop, Anthony De La Torre, said in an internal probe ordered in 2014. “They were basically doing this to have a 100% clearance rate for the city.”



Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article213647764.html

[dalton99a]

1. Crooks hiring crooks:

Atesiano had come to the village after an earlier case involving a doctored arrest record. In 2006, Atesiano, then a sergeant in Sunny Isles Beach, agreed to leave there after investigators discovered he’d forged a man’s name on a notice to appear in court after police arrested him for marijuana. Prosecutors told him to resign or face arrest.

Atesiano left but landed with Biscayne Park two years later and rebuilt his reputation. The village named him officer of the year in 2011. Two years later, he was promoted to replace the retiring chief and he immediately began touting impressive progress in solving home break-ins and property crimes, always a priority issue in otherwise quiet suburbs.

[bettyellen]

2. Political pressure and the ability to look at stats immediately and constantly fucked up a lot of

major PDs. My brother said the NYPD changed a great deal w Giuliani’s pressure. Including dissuading many women to file rape charges, and to charge people at a lower level of violence to make the city appear safer.
He hated seeing that.

[WhiteTara]

3. Bastards. They have no mother. nt

[Locrian]

4. there's an epidemic of this going on...

not just in the police depts but business too

The increased concentration of
* power "at the top"
* a desire by the people at the top for proving they are not useless - ie are "in control"
* religious belief in "metrics"
* metrics and stats usually thought up by people completely separated from the actual work
* easy "computer" accounting and presentation of "stats" to the top
* perception / spin that the "metrics" are meaningful
* stripping out any "gray" or human interpretation to be "accurate" (see religious belief)

has all resulted in supremely STUPID decisions and massive waste of human resources and capital