EXCLUSIVE: FBI Says Springfield, Ohio Updated Previously Sanitized Murder Data

For Year, Springfield Police Were Hiding Race of Murders

The Springfield (Ohio) Police Department (SPD) has at last submitted updated crime data to the FBI, an FBI spokesperson said last week. For several years, Springfield Police had been sanitizing crime data—misreporting figures to the Ohio Department of Public Safety (DPS) and FBI.

For the years 2021 through 2023, for instance, SPD claimed that only one pe…