Phoenix, AZ —After leaving Chicago to open my detective agency in Phoenix I learned that over-reporting crime was all the rage in this city. This sent me into a police culture shock. I had spent my prior years learning that as a policeman my job was to kill crime with my pencil rather than a gun. The City of Chicago wanted to create an illusion of low crime and at the same time show our uncanny ability to solve the more serious crimes at a much higher rate than the national average. Crime reporting nationwide by police is done through the Uniform Crime Reports made to the FBI . There are the more serious Part One Crimes and then there are the lesser Part Two crimes. The whole thing becomes complicated with those abused, wasted and mismanaged federal funds created and maintained during 50 years of political progressives controlling Congress. The most common examples for Chicago cops are as follows. 1. You respond to a call of a burglary and find no suspects or viable leads to solve ...