[Mpls] Re: Crime stats and Minneapolis residents getting skewed

[Tim Bonham]

>Apparently a person must die to be counted as a crime these days.

>My understanding is that an incident is considered "medical" if an 
>ambulance is
>called. A police report is not recorded unless the VICTIM requests one.
>. . .
>Vicky Heller
>North Oaks and Cedar-Riverside

The first sentence here completely contradicts the second one!
         So apparently all 10 people reported as murder victims rose up, 
Lazarus-like, to ask for a police report, before falling back into their 
eternal rest?

Anybody who's ever gone on a ride-along with police knows all about the 
voluminous reports that police file on incidents as minor as knocking over 
garbage carts.  Yet Vicky "understands" that shootings are not 
reported?  Yeah, sure.

Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson