Think about this: An NYPD official is held accountable for rape statistics. There are two ways to make those numbers look better. The first way is to actually prevent rape—to project the police’s presence into dangerous areas and thereby deter the violent acts. (That’s what would have happened if Ritchie and his partner had arrived at the scene just a few minutes earlier.) The second way to reduce the rape count is to reclassify actual rapes as lesser crimes—in this case, Ritchie’s boss tries to reframe the incident with the prostitute as a “theft of service.” The first way constitutes a
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This isn't "gaming the system," this is lying. It's fraud.
