Kwame Kilpatrick is long gone, but the Detroit Police Department still uses his accounting practices.
For the seventh year in a row, Detroit City Hall and Police brass held an event to push the glorious headline: Fewest homicides in Detroit since the 1960s!
The audience erupted in applause! 165 people killed!
But the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office determines cause of death and they put the 2025 homicide count at 186.
The cops took a 10% death discount.
Since Kilpatrick became mayor in the early 2000s, the police department—hungry for headlines—has backed out homicide victims whose deaths were determined to be “justified.”
The FBI allows this, but it requires those homicides to be counted and reported.
Since the FBI began collecting crime data in 1930, the DPD never engaged in this “justifiable” sleight of hand, not in 1965, not in 1985, not until the Kwamster came to power.
So what gives? The answer is as simple as 2 + 2 = 5
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