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NY Post Expose:
NYPD Fakes Crime Stats

by Robert Lederman
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
March 15, 2002

If you're one of the people who roll your eyes in disgust every time I refer to "America's Mayor"Rudolph Giuliani faking crime stats to make himself look good, here's the latest vindication for my claims.

According to the NY Post article below the NYPD is investigating itself for faking crime stats by re-categorizing serious crimes - including murder and rape - as lesser ones in order to make it appear that crime went down. Rather than being an isolated incident or the misdeed of one precinct commander, the reality is that this was an official but unstated policy throughout the entire Giuliani administration. If you are skeptical about this article or would like to imagine it's a smear by Democrats, please note that the NY Post is NYC's most rightwing, pro-Giuliani and pro-NYPD newspaper.

For the real story on America's phoniest hero and the eight year crime spree known as, "The Giuliani Legacy", read some of the other articles on this site.

When you consider the way GW Bush and Giuliani have recently made public records from their administrations completely off-limits to reporters, historians and the public and that Giuliani's specialty as the number three man in the Reagan-Bush Justice Department was compiling crime statistics, this little article in the Post is very significant.

If they'd even lie about the
real number of murders and rapes
committed in NYC
as part of their routine policy
what wouldn't they lie about?

• 9/11?
• The real purpose of the fake war on terror?
• Why Giuliani sprayed NYC with nerve gas invented in Nazi Germany each Summer for his last three years in office?
• What actually destroyed the twin towers?

Last week both the Post and Daily news mentioned that Giuliani might replace Dick Cheney on the 2004 Bush Presidential ticket. If you still think it's a distasteful analogy to compare these men and their political careers to the rise of Nazi Germany, check out the extensive documented evidence on this website. Their links to the Nazis, eugenics and fascism are verifiable to anyone who dares to open their eyes and read the evidence.

NY Post 3/14/2002
By LARRY CELONA
Click here for the Post story on their website

NYPD PROBES NUMBERS
GAME ON CRIME STATS

EXCLUSIVE --
A Bronx police precinct is under investigation by NYPD Internal Affairs for allegedly doctoring crime statistics - after The Post uncovered evidence that books were being cooked.

Documents obtained by The Post show a rape recorded in the 50th Precinct was logged as a lesser crime - thus giving a rare look into what some beat cops say is a statistical sleight of hand used by their commanders.

According to many patrol officers, commanders sometimes reclassify major crimes like murder, assault, robbery and rape as lesser offenses to make it appear they are winning the war on crime. But downgrading crimes is a serious violation, and commanders in the past have been removed for such actions.

In the incident at the 50th Precinct, the March 8 rape of a woman at a Bailey Avenue hotel was recorded as an "inconclusive"incident.

Only on Tuesday, after The Post started asking questions, was the crime properly classified as rape.

In the alleged sex attack, the suspect forced his estranged, 37-year-old wife to have sex at the hotel after she refused.

The victim originally reported the attack to the 52nd Precinct, which classified it in its records as a sex assault.

But after the assault was transferred to the 50th Precinct - because of the hotel's location - it was downgraded to "inconclusive."

It remained inconclusive, even after the Bronx district attorney last Saturday charged the man with first-degree rape and other sex crimes.

It was changed to a sex assault only yesterday, the same day a Post reporter phoned.

On Tuesday, 50th Precinct commander Capt. Thomas DiRusso denied wrongdoing.

"I have nothing to hide,"he said. The department routinely inspects precinct crime statistics for irregularities.

Officers complain that commanders who reclassify crimes want to make it appear they are keeping crime down, thus boosting their chance for promotion.

In 1998, Capt. Daniel Castro, a promising young commander and one of the department's rising stars, lost his command after a review found he achieved an 80 percent crime drop after downgrading crimes like robbery and theft to "missing property."

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Robert Lederman is an artist, writer and activist and is also the President of the street artist advocacy group, A.R.T.I.S.T.
Click here for an archive of A.R.T.I.S.T. related news articles on the Freedom Forum website

His essays and Op-Eds have appeared in hundreds of alternative publications as well as the Daily News, Penthouse, Africa Sun Times, Street News and The Shadow.
Lederman was falsely arrested 41 times for his anti-Giuliani activities and was never convicted of any of the charges. As a result of the arrests, he's won four Federal lawsuits and overturned three laws.
He is best known for having created hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator which were carried in demonstrations throughout the eight years of the Giuliani administration. Images of his paintings and articles about his arrests and lawsuits have appeared on all of the major television networks hundreds of times as well as frequently appearing in the NY Times, Daily News, NY Post, Newsday, Newsweek, People, The Washington Post, LA Times and NY Magazine.

Robert Lederman,
President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics)
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net

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