DALLAS (AP) - The number of
detectives investigating violent crimes in Dallas has been slashed by
46% since 2010, a newspaper investigation has found
The Dallas Morning News (http://dallasne.ws/SHZ7Y7)
says its months-long investigation found severe understaffing of the
Dallas Police Department detective units that investigate murder, rape,
robbery and aggravated assault. Where once about 91 investigators worked
such cases, about 49 are now on the job.
Investigative units have been stripped of manpower as detectives were transferred, quit or retired, according to the newspaper.
Police commanders defend
the reductions. They say the department is on pace to report its 11th
consecutive year of declining violent crime.
But the newspaper says it
has found that the department has changed the way some crimes are
counted - sometimes in violation of FBI guidelines.
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