Columbus police admit to underreporting over 165,000 cases since 2013 due to a system error.

The Columbus Division of Police in Ohio has admitted to underreporting about 165,000 criminal cases to the state and FBI since 2013 due to a system error after switching to an incident-based reporting system. This affected crime statistics for several years, showing drops in crime when it was actually increasing. The issue was discovered during an internal review, and the department is now working to correct the data.

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