various communities around the city. and there are more and more residents were starting to fill up these meetings, and starting to say, i was a victim of a crime, or i witnessed a crime, or i know this will crime happened or this crime happened and we're very afraid. and the police would take out a piece of paper mostly and read off the stats. burglaries are down 17%, robberies are down 20%. trust the stats, and people weren't seeing these stats. >> they're looking into it now. >> in what chicago magazine found according to their nearly 40 police sources, is a department where some abeer to be engaged in a widespread practice of misclassifying other crimes too. and in some cases, making them go away all together. >> the majority of them, we were directed to from sources. people who said, hey, you want to take a look at this one. and it began from there.