Brooklyn Cop: Crime Statistics Are Lies

I live in Gramercy Park. For the past four years or so, I've made nightly habit of lighting a big fat joint and wandering around stuyvesant park with it. Sometimes I'll go down to 14th street and get a nice hotdog, reeking of weed. Sometimes I'll tamp my joint out on the side of the dunkin donuts on 21st street and 3rd avenue, just before I walk in and get a coffee, again, reeking of weed.

I've been stopped by the cops 3 times in the past 4 years. Here's how it went down:

1st time: I was coming out of stuyvesant park, and had just exhaled a great billowing cloud of pot smoke, right in front of two uniformed officers. I made an "oh shit" face, and dropped my joint. One of the officers stepped forward to put it out with his foot, and the other one lectured me for about five minutes on doing that kind of thing in "public". They let me go.

2nd time: I was walking toward papaya dog on 14th street, with a nice fat dutchie, bits of hash crumbled up in amongst the best NYC sour diesel I've ever had. A cop walked past me going the other direction (I never see them for some reason), turned around and told me to stop, and asked me what I had in my hand. I told him it was a joint, and that I was very sorry, I knew what I was doing was wrong. He took the joint from me, put it out on the side of a building and tossed it down the sewer. He told me that he didnt want to see me doing that kind of thing again. He let me go.

3rd time: I was walking west on 21st street, stoned out of my damn mind, still smoking the remnants of another giant bone. As I exhaled when I got to the corner, I had to wiggle my way through a crowd of people. When I got past them I realized that they were all uniformed cops (five of them), and that they had just seen and smelled me toking. I stopped and said "oh fuck" in a tight, still holding my hit voice, then coughed it all out in a sudden spasm.

Their reaction? The sergeant laughed. Then the rest of them starting laughing, calling me a dumbass and how could I have not noticed the huge precinct on 21st street that id just walked past. I said "I'm really sorry officer, its just that I'm so stoned I can't even remember my phone number"

They took my joint, threw it down the sewer, and told me to not do that kind of thing on 21st street anymore.

Now to the point:

My doorman, who is dominican, was caught with a joint on 14th street in the same spot I was. He was taken down to the tombs and held overnight, and had to appear in court.

My friend, who is hatian and homeless and hangs around 17th and 1st avenue was caught with a bowl (that I gave him), packed with a really great example of grandaddy purple. He was arrested on the spot and taken down to the tombs, where he spent two weeks without seeing a judge.

Another friend, who is black and lives in Chelsea, was caught with a blunt somewhere around 25th street and 8th avenue. He was beaten up, taken down to the tombs, and spent three days there.

Now as an exercise for the class... guess what color I am?

I think I was walking behind you on 21st between 3rd and Lex around 12:30 p.m. last Friday. Skinny white (blonde?) guy in tight jeans?

Nope, not me... though having just posted what I did, despite being caucazoid, I'm hesitant to give any real description.

Makes prety good sense when you think about it.

RT

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He'll never work in that precinct again. He should have known what he was getting himself into before he opened his mouth.

Yeah, it's all his fault. Seriously, are you actually defending this despicable aspect of police culture?

Everyone that lies, gets whats comming to them eventually it may not look like it now but the universe has checks and balances - hopefully when bloomie cant change his own diapers anymore his nurse will leave him to stew in his own excrement.

The pc only knows what he's told. Each precinct commander is held accountable for his numbers at compstat meetings that come with little warning.

The bottom line with the dept is usually that we simply get the officers we deserve. There aren't that many honest middle class people in this city. It's why we have to recruit guys from texas.

My guess would be that the pressure to fudge doesn't come from the top, but from middle management trying to get ahead (like the Precinct Commander or something.)

But, Ray Kelley should know that it's happening. We do need a new Police Commissioner.

The guy was in the Nam, he knows how to do a body count

Bloomturd and popeye Ray Kelly have done such a great job peddling the lie that the city is a big happy safe candy land that perhaps tourists and midwest transplants are surprised by a revelation like this. In reality its been common knowledge that NYPD brass fudge these numbers to avoid heat from city hall and popeye for years

And hey, it took a transplant to actually speak out.

He may be getting even with a sergeant who bullied him, they NYPD is full of alcoholic bullies.

as is my life

No, we're not surprised by this. This might blow your mind, but people that weren't born in New York can read and make observations too. Perhaps even a bigger revelation for you: we have crime in our cities! In fact, some of them are far, far worse!

New York isn't scary! Amazing!

Rudy Giuliani mastered this.

Schoolcraft is going to face alot of crap for spilling this...

And that's the reason you don't have good cops... it's not the pay, it's the culture.

NYPD culture needs to change... they don't need more money, they need more respect for the people they are supposed to serve.

Go read the 'THEE RANT'... Unbelievable that we give some of these gorillas cuffs and guns.

From firsthand experience I can say these allegations are true.

From an arms-length perspective, of course this will be the case when statistics become politicized. For the crime rate, crimes will be ignored. For economic recovery, jobs will be "created" and unemployed people are excluded from unemployment rates b/c they're no longer in the "workforce."

Still, hats off to this cop for sticking his neck out to point out the obvious, because the obvious does need pointing out every once in a while.

File this one under "duh".

Definitely not a shock.

Sad thing is, this will be in the news for a day or two and that's it.

Again, where are the police apologists telling us that we need to believe everything the cops say?

"He doesn't understand the police culture." I think the only people certified to understand police culture are other gang members.

They need to do an independent audit by cross checking 911 complaints with the NYPD Stats. The insiders who run NY will never do this because their mentality is the same as the people who ran Brezhnev’s USSR.

Bully for this guy on doing something brave but necessary. Sure, anyone paying attention has known this for a long time - my sources with connections to the DA's office treat the precinct numbers with as much respect as a racing form.

But til now, it was one of those things nothing could be done about it. We'll see if our modern-day Serpico can make a difference.

every city underreports crime stats. can't buy yourself a third term otherwise.

its a bad week for the Blue Wall of Silence...

unsurprising, Bloomberg plays with these numbers to stroke his own ego. Schools are failing big time even though MORE money has been spend on Education and Crime isn't down but unreported. All the crimes on the train isn't recorded. the police wouldn't take my report after my iphone was stolen and told me to wait for transit police and left. After 45 minutes, I left as well.