Bay Ridge Crime Statistics Tweaked to Be Storybook Perfect
Crime statistics came out and Mayor de Blasio and his minions rejoiced. The local paper, The Brooklyn Reporter shared the report. The reporter, Jaime DeJesus doesn’t live in Bay Ridge. You will see no residents were interviewed for the story. This is how the wool is pulled over the community’s eyes.
You and I know what’s up.
Bay Ridge crime statistics are skewed, twisted or under-reported on purpose. If crime was reported honestly here, then we would have a problem. If there is a problem, then people need to work on it and……no one wants to do work.
Real information:
On August 25th, there was an attempted rape in Bay Ridge on 90th Street. A 27-year-old woman was thrown on the ground, her clothes ripped off and the man sexually assaulted her. A good Samaritan stopped the rape. Story here
The 68th Precinct officers reported this as a date rape….meaning it was down-graded to an assault and no one had to do anything because it’s two people who knew each other and they almost had sex on a date. (Yeah apparently rape isn’t rape according to the NYPD since date rape has a lower category).
Now here’s where we KNOW a problem exists in the 68th Precinct: The police officers who made the report had to turn it in to a supervisor (a Sargent, a lieutenant or a Captain – someone had to read that report). If it was “date rape” then the woman would have told the police officers the rapist’s name and it would be in the report. The victim didn’t know his name, so how did that go unnoticed by supervisors? (There are at least three NYPD officers in the 68th Precinct who knew this was rape from the start – the two officers on duty and their supervisor).
Here’s more: The situation wasn’t shared with the public to find the rapist until TWO WEEKS later (see my tweet below)
Emmanuel Martinez-Hernandez, the man in the video turned himself over to the police after his picture was shared widely on social media – see here.
The victim didn’t know her attacker. How the heck could any NYPD officer have gotten that fact incorrect? That NYPD officer still works in our district because no one investigated, as the situation was swept away like it never happened.
YES, we were told it was going to be looked into, but it was quickly forgotten about.
No one wants to question the NYPD in Bay Ridge because questioners are called cop-haters here. Nicole Malliotakis’ staffer called me this for questioning the NYPD in the area where I live. Malliotakis is an assembly representative who doesn’t live in Bay Ridge, so she doesn’t care. In a few years, she won’t even part of this community, so it doesn’t matter to her. Marty Golden didn’t question the police because he was a NYPD officer.
For years, I have written about the NYPD at Fort Snooze, even when I had a friend working in the precinct. I grew up in Sunset Park with many friends who became police officers. I support the death penalty for cop killers, so no one needs to tell me who I am – especially not a political hack.
Residents here will tell you that their calls to the 68th Precinct go unanswered, calls to 311 are closed with no NYPD response, 311 calls are reported as answered even when nothing has happened (see here and here), some officers discourage residents from making reports or simply will NOT take a report (see here).
The NYPD knows that no one follows up with 311 calls, so they don’t care. Most people just accept that their call is closed. I had to open one call about four times…no one contacted me from the city to ask about what happened.
Last year, we learned that residents reported 32 noise complaints about a restaurant, yet the owner of the restaurant said in front of everyone including the NYPD officer that represents this community that he had only heard of one or two complaints (see here – video too)
Last January, I shared that Compstats had changed for this area….one month they were one number and the following month, the number was tweaked see here. Whose tweaking the 68th Precinct’s statistics?
Accepting statistics has become the norm. It makes people happy to say crime is down.
Our area should be covered with beat cops walking around Bay Ridge because we are part of the community policing program. Has anyone seen them or did the NYPD just hire more police officers to sit in the precinct or lend out to other districts? The only officer I ever see in Bay Ridge is the one that’s on the horse. Where are the NCO’s?
Hugs,
marlene
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January 7th, 2019 at 12:30 am
Actually, the name of the community affairs officer for the 68th precinct is Det. Harold (aka “Harry” to his pals?) Kirschner. It seems he’s been around a while so he’s likely been thoroughly indoctrinated in the 68th precinct customs and traditions. I saw him at a monthly meeting last year and he’s hardly impressive. I was told to discuss a matter of local concern with him after the mtg. but he was so busy obviously hitting on some female that he couldn’t be bothered. Par for the course.
Thank god FDNY Engine 241/Ladder 109 is reliable, prepared and professional in the performance of their duties. It’s a comfort knowing they will always be there when needed.