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Puerto Rico Prodded to Get Tough on Police
The discrepancies in the Puerto Rico police logs were hard to miss. Burglaries,
including stolen plasma televisions and jewelry, were coded as mere breaking and
entering. Large-scale thefts of telephone company cables were labeled property
damage.

After months spent investigating, it was clear to Norman O. Torrens, an internal
affairs agent for the Puerto Rico Police Department, that scores of felony crimes in
Vega Alta, in the north, were being intentionally recorded as misdemeanors. The
result was that these crimes were not counted in statistics releas... Read more