FBI can correct only 2 years of police data - Milwaukee police chief had pledged to fix errors dating to 2006 (Chicago Style of Reporting)

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Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn told aldermen last week that the department misreported more than 5,300 aggravated assaults since 2006 as minor offenses.

Although he pledged to correct those errors with the FBI, the agency's national crime reporting program only allows revision for two years after crimes are reported.

Stephen Fischer, spokesman for the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services division, said the Police Department can revise its crime data for 2011 and the current year.

But any changes made in last year's figures will not be reflected in the FBI's Crime in the United States 2011 report to be released this fall, because "the publication process has passed the point where we can make adjustments," Fischer said.

That means thousands of serious assaults misreported by Milwaukee police since 2006 will not be included in the FBI's annual crime reports for those years.

In all, figures from an internal department audit show 20% of aggravated assaults were underreported as lesser offenses that didn't get counted in the city's violent crime rate during that time. That error rate is 10 times higher than the accepted standard, a crime coding expert said.

Fischer did leave the door open for future revision. He said Milwaukee police should submit revised data to the Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance, then the FBI will determine "any future course of action" on updating its records.

"The FBI is always willing to work with states (and) agencies to ensure the most accurate data is represented in the UCR," Fischer said.

Tami Jackson, spokeswoman for the state Justice Assistance office, said that while the FBI accepts revisions to crime data for up to two years, the state agency will allow Milwaukee police to send corrections to their data as far back as necessary.

However, the office will not make any revisions to previously published crime reports available on its website.

"In this unique and specific case, OJA has decided to relax our edit (and) validation parameters for a three-month period to allow MPD to submit adjustments to previously reported crime data," Jackson said. "At the state level, we made this decision to have better quality data even if that data is historical."

Milwaukee police officials did not respond to questions for this story.

The internal police audit released last week echoes the findings of a Journal Sentinel investigation in May of a more limited pool of cases that identified in excess of 500 misreported serious assaults over a three-year period. The newspaper's review found more than 800 additional cases that fit the same pattern but couldn't be checked with available public records.

The Journal Sentinel has sought those 828 incident reports through an open records request. Flynn said it will cost more than $10,000 to redact information and provide the reports. That's more than twice what it requested in 2010 for providing about 750 such reports, an issue that long has been tied up in court.

The state Supreme Court is expected to rule Wednesday on whether the department can charge fees for redacting parts of the reports.

The internal department review also determined that almost 1,200 minor assaults were overreported as aggravated assaults during the past six years. Overreporting means those assault cases should have been classified as minor offenses.

When the FBI reviews crime data reported by states, the goal is to find less than a 2% error rate for all crimes, said Daniel Bibel, director of the crime reporting unit for the Massachusetts State Police. An underreporting error rate of 20% for aggravated assaults is 10 times higher than the accepted benchmark.

NO! NO! NO! CEASEFIRE doesn't stop elderly crimes.... Man, 77, and woman, 62, found murdered in their separate homes

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A 77-year-old man and a 62-year-old woman were found murdered Tuesday night in their homes on the city’s South Side, police said.

At 10:25 p.m., the man was found fatally stabbed at his home in the 9000 block of South East End, police said, adding that the man had multiple stab wounds throughout his body.

The man – identified as Donald Ellens – was found dead by relatives who had not heard from him for some time, police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said.

About 10 minutes later, the woman was found shot multiple times at her home in the 9000 block of South Dobson, police said.

Althea McGee was dead on the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Officers were conducting a well-being check at the request of her relatives, according to police.

Early reports indicted that nothing was taken from both homes, and neither residence showed signs of forced entry, police said.

Police said the two murders do not appear to be related.

George Zimmerman Passed Police Lie Detector Test Day After Trayvon Martin fatal shooting

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A day after killing Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman passed a police lie detector test when asked if he confronted the teenager and whether he feared for his life “when you shot the guy,” according to documents released today by Florida prosecutors.

According to a “confidential report” prepared by the Sanford Police Department, Zimmerman, 28, willingly submitted to a computer voice stress analyzer (CVSA) “truth verification” on February 27. Investigators concluded that he “has told substantially the complete truth in regards to this examination.”

Zimmerman, the report noted, “was classified as No Deception Indicated (NDI).”

Along with questions about whether his first name was George and if it was Monday, Zimmerman was asked, “Did you confront the guy you shot?’ He answered, “No.” He was also asked, “Were you in fear for your life, when you shot the guy.” Zimmerman replied, “Yes.”

Before the CVSA test, Zimmerman--who was apparently not accompanied by legal counsel--signed a Sanford Police Department release stating that he was undergoing the examination “voluntarily, without duress, coercion, threat or promise.”

The lie detector test was requested by Chris Serino, a homicide investigator with the Sanford Police Department.

Never bring a FART to a GUN FIGHT - Colored Man threatens neighbor with gun for flatulence (FART) attack in front of his home

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Odor in the court.

A 72-year-old New Jersey man has been charged with threatening to shoot his neighbor for farting in front of his home.

Instead of waving off Monday night’s flatulence attack, Daniel Collins of Teaneck pulled a .32-caliber revolver and threatened to “put a hole” in his gassy neighbor’s head, cops said.

The stink apparently stemmed from an ongoing dispute between the two men over noise, police told The Record of North Jersey.

Collins told cops his 47-year-old neighbor cut the cheese so loudly in his vestibule he heard it inside his apartment before he smelled it.

Collins was charged with aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a firearm and making terroristic threats. He was released without bail.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy James Lee who arrested Mel Gibson is being fired from the force

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The deputy who accused the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department of retaliating against him after he arrested Mel Gibson in 2006 on a drunk-driving charge is being fired, an official said.

After arresting Gibson, Deputy James Mee sued the department, alleging his supervisors targeted him because he resisted requests to remove the actor's anti-Semitic slurs from an initial arrest report.

Earlier this year, he reached a settlement agreement for $50,000.

Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore would not comment on the details of the firing, but he denied it was retaliation for Mee's lawsuit.

"It has nothing to do whatsoever with the Mel Gibson arrest," he said.

Richard A. Shinee, Mee's attorney, said the department has been after Mee since the Gibson incident.

"Now they’ve put together this extremely flimsy case against him. This is a guy who had an outstanding career, a leader in street safety," he said. "He was well-respected until after the department got embarrassed by the Mel Gibson case, and they have pursued him relentlessly ever since."

Shinee said the department is trying to fire Mee over a June 17, 2011, pursuit of a drunk driver who slammed into a gas station, causing a fire. Mee received a letter dated June 7 notifying him the department intended to fire him, Shinee said.

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Debt balloons for Chicago-area pension plans - Funds accrue $27.4 billion shortfall between 2001 and 2010 - That's $27,400,000,000.00

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Photo: "(The elected officials) By ignoring this issue for so long, you've guaranteed that any pension reforms (Including Chicago Police & Fire) will have to be much larger to be effective," said Laurence Msall, president of the the nonpartisan Civic Federation.

The debt from 10 Chicago-area pension plans swelled more than 600 percent to $27.4 billion between 2001 and 2010, according to a study released Monday by the nonpartisan Civic Federation. That's $8,993 for each man, woman and child in Chicago, according to the report.

The shortfall comes on top of more than $83 billion in unfunded pension liabilities at the state level, driving the cost up to nearly $15,000 per Chicagoan, the report shows.

"While they're debating what to do about the state funds, these local funds are continuing to decline," said Laurence Msall, Civic Federation president. "Inaction during the past 10 years means it's not just politically more difficult to fix this problem but also mathematically more difficult."

The report bolsters the urgency for pension reform expressed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn in recent months. In May, the mayor traveled to Springfield to testify before a House pension panel, saying essential city services and education reforms would suffer if dramatic changes aren't made to the city's pension system.

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Chicago's Palermo Pizza facing union organizing, immigration issues by Illegal Beaners

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No longer are the illegal beaners afraid to talk to the media and be public. Now the illegal aliens want unions and higher pay... Fucking amazing!
PHOTO: Three-year employee Leopoldo Rodriguez chants with other protesters on strike Friday at Palermo Villa Inc. in the Menomonee Valley. Protesters have been meeting for two shifts a day Monday through Saturday, chanting phrases such as "No justice, no pizza." The employees also want a promise by Palermo that they will not turn in undocumented workers.

Menomonee, WI - When it announced it would move its sprawling frozen pizza business into the Menomonee Valley's new business park, Palermo Villa Inc. was praised by city officials as a corporate star, bringing new development and good paying jobs to the heart of the city.

That was in 2005, when Palermo agreed to buy 14 acres of city-owned land and build a 100,000-square-foot facility that consolidated operations from three locations - including one in Illinois - in the valley. Since then, the company that markets frozen pizzas throughout the United States and Canada has expanded, churning out products under its own name, as well as other supermarket brands. Today it employs 450 workers.

It's a business that's boomed, especially in tough economic times, when popping a frozen pizza in the oven is cheaper than takeout or a night at the corner restaurant.

But today the company finds itself at the center of several hot-button issues - unionization, jobs and immigration enforcement - that have drawn national attention.

Workers - most of them Latinos who had either walked off the job or been fired - have picketed outside the company all month as part of an effort to form a union, which workers say is needed to deal with sick day policies, wages, discrimination by some supervisors and retaliation for efforts to form a collective bargaining unit. There's an attempt to start a boycott of Palermo's pizza.

The AFL-CIO, steelworkers union, Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association and other unions, along with faith groups such as the Milwaukee Inner-city Congregations Allied for Hope and political figures including state Reps. JoCasta Zamarripa and Josh Zepnik, both of Milwaukee, have rallied with the workers.

The national "Nuns on the Bus" tour, a group of Catholic sisters who visited Wisconsin last week as part of a tour protesting Republican U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget, joined the striking workers to offer support.

Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of Voces de la Frontera, an immigrant and worker rights group, has been helping the workers organize and maintains the company is using an immigration audit it recently underwent as a tool to bust the organizing effort.

The company has fired back in what's becoming a heated battle.

"The allegations leveled against Palermo are categorically false," said Chris Dresselhuys, director of marketing.

The story of Palermo Villa is the quintessential American success story, founded by Sicilian immigrant Gaspare "Jack" and Zina Fallucca, he said.

"Papa worked his fingers until they bled doing stonework, and then he was able to open an Italian bakery and later the pizza business," he said.

Fallucca's sons Giacomo and Angelo now run the business.

Dresselhuys said Palermo's pay is in line with wages paid by other companies its size that use unskilled workers. He said the company offers health benefits and paid time off. He denies there have been discriminatory or retaliatory actions.

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