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Crime Drop? How Data-Driven Reporting Fueled an Investigation of the Milwaukee Police Department’s Flawed Data

By David Krajicek | May 11, 2016
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A crime reporting case study of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May-November 2012 . . .

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