Did South Dakota Highway Patrol crime report give Sioux Falls a black eye?

City officials credit Gov. Rhoden, state police after rectifying erroneous Prairie Thunder arrest counts revealed by The Dakota Scout

Flanked by Gov. Larry Rhoden and Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken, South Dakota Highway Patrol Superintendent Casey Collins speaks at a February press conference in Sioux Falls. (Joe. Sneve/The. Dakota Scout)

State police are taking flak for conflating the number of arrests made last month in a government crime crackdown.

Sioux Falls officials at both City Hall and behind the dais at City Council chambers downtown aren’t happy about inaccurate arrest counts tallied during a three-day saturation conducted in late August by the Highway Patrol in eastern South Dakota.

S.D. Highway Patrol conflated arrests made in Rhoden's Prairie Thunder saturation