Chief Kozak responded to Collins comments with the following statement on Monday morning:
Once again Mr. Collins has released misinformation, which I am obligated to correct. The Cheyenne Police Department has always released accurate crime numbers to the Division of Criminal Investigations (DCI); it is erroneous for Mr. Collins to infer otherwise. In fact, the Cheyenne Police Department releases its crime statistic with our annual report, a year before DCI publishes them. The reports are always available on our website.
Clearance percentages, which is the term Mr. Collins probably meant to say, is the percentage of arrests and citations compared to index crimes. This percentage was not being calculated by our records management system because the data continuously changes as investigations progress. The FBI warns that clearance numbers are inaccurate and should never be used to compare police agencies. This is the reason the outdated FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR