19 NY police officers face charges of downgrading crimes

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

19 NY police officers face charges of downgrading crimes

Colleen Long, Associated Press

Updated 8:24 pm, Friday, July 17, 2015

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials in the nation's largest police department said Friday they uncovered dozens of instances of crimes misreported and wrongly downgraded by officers at a precinct after an anonymous tip to internal affairs and now 19 officers face departmental charges.

The 19 New York Police Department employees — one lieutenant, eight sergeants, nine officers and one detective — worked at the 40th Precinct in the Bronx and face charges of misreporting during a four-month period last year. They face a loss of vacation days or possible dismissal from the department if they are found guilty.

Commissioner William Bratton, who took over the 35,000-officer department last year, has made it a priority to ensure crime complaints are accurately reported.

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The department's Quality Assurance Division, under a risk management bureau tasked with weeding out problem officers, uncovered 55 instances in 1,558 complaints of crimes downgraded or misreported within the precinct. The officers were accused of downgrading or misreporting low-level crimes such as petit larceny, not killings, rapes or shootings.


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[Live and Learn]

1. How ironic that they aren't accusing cops of uprading crimes

which I am sure is much more common.

[fbc]

2. With cops it's always whatever is more convenient

truth doesn't even amount to an afterthought

[Sunlei]

6. the old u have a light out, or didn't use turn early enough or the dog smelled something or

you looked at me or did not look at me police excuse to ruin your life.

[sendero]

3. I would gladly permit this kind of latitude for these..

... sorts of crimes if cops lost the wide latitude they get as related to the unjustifiable use of force.

This shit is penny-ante horsecrap.

[Sunlei]

7. NYC has a huge camera control complex, they watch everything and point out, send message to

police on the street, to get the jay walker or single ciggie seller criminals

[Sunlei]

5. 'anonymous tip to internal affairs' TIPS should be paid for, like crime stoppers. offer a reward &

guarantee anonymous by law, and they will get a lot more of the corruption tips.

[MicaelS]

8. This probably occurred because of pressure from..

The top level officials to the local commanders to "make their numbers go down", or get fired.

[Hestia]

11. Exactly - they downgrade or non-report crimes in order to make the official stats look like

major crimes have gone down, when in reality, they haven't, they just aren't reported. There was a report last year about lawsuits and a group of raped women who stated the cops didn't even report their rapes. Ergo, rape stats are dropping.

[iandhr]

9. This was a common theme of many episodes of The Wire

The term was "juking the stats"

[valerief]

10. Wow, some brave person or persons are talking. nt