TOKYO, Aug 01, 2014 (AFP) - Osaka police have admitted they did not report more than 81,000 offences over a period of several years in a desperate bid to clean up the region's woeful reputation for street crime.
The revelation came earlier this week when embarrassed authorities said they had kept the data out of national crime statistics between 2008 and 2012.
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