New York, NY – Two academics at an FBI-sponsored conference Friday will accuse the NYPD of cooking the books to make the city appear safer.
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The claims are contained in a survey of more than 309 police officers – most of whom have served as precinct commanders since the department started using the CompStat program in the mid-’90s.
More than half of the respondents admitted to fudging numbers, according to the study by John Eterno of Molloy College and Eli Silverman of John Jay College.
The pair of criminologists will also release recordings they obtained from several roll calls that they say capture supervisors telling officers not to take reports of robberies unless the victim is willing to go to the stationhouse.
The recordings also capture officers being told not to take reports if they think the district attorney will not prosecute.
“It’s putting people in an unreasonable position,” said Silverman, adding that there is growing pressure from top brass to keep the numbers down. “The public needs to understand that crime can fluctuate.”
Silverman said the city needs to change how it views CompStat, a program that maps crime so that police can zero in on problem areas.
“It needs to be less number-driven,” Silverman said. “You can’t just measure [cities] by their crime rate.”
Police did not immediately comment.
Silverman and Eterno, a retired NYPD captain, will present their findings at the Crime Data Conference at John Jay’s West Side campus on 10th Ave.
Don’t want to see Espo call you up
compstat !!!! -k-
bloomberg and friends fudging over the books for there own intrests.i would rather vote for sharpton then that fridgedair bloomberg.mike old boy.gay kocken offen yam.
so now “our” darling mayor may not be able to claim that crime has decreased under his charge!!
He is too busy defending and worrying about the murderous Muslim terrorists.
He tripled his fortune as Mayor.. Let’s not be fooled by the fact that he does not take a salary. The favor he returns with city money to those who buy from his “former” businesses is enough to support several large neighborhoods.
He has no clue what it means to struggle to survive in this city. He has been increasing Real Estate taxes – Parking tickets and all other fines like no other mayor ever did. He inherited a markedly improved city from a great Mayor and has been riding on his shirttails. Bloomy I think we had enough of you. Please go away. This cooking of the books to make you look better is typical of you.
Don’t ever tell Dr. Charlie Hall! He bases all of his anti-gun arguments on the twisted, fake numbers. Let him live in his fantasy world. The rest of us will just have to arm ourselves to do our hishtadlus against the thugs out there.
officers have been told to down grade their arrests to show lower serious crime rates so bloomberg and company can see we are better then previous adminisration