The elderly couple who—because of a computer error—have received more than fifty disruptive visits from the cops, got a personal apology from the mayor yesterday. Back in 2002 their Marine Park address was mistakenly keyed into a police database in connection with a rape case, and not deleted until 2007, reports the News. A repentant Bloomberg said that, "The Police Department certainly didn't do it deliberately. And we are sorry they got bothered. I feel it, you feel it, (Police Commissioner) Kelly feels it, we all feel it. It's a shame it happened."

Bloomberg admitted that "You'd think somebody would have caught it before. It got fixed. Sometimes things happen and it's a shame." In a letter Ray Kelly, one of the victims, Rose Martin, wrote that "I am fearful that if a no-knock warrant is issued with my address that my husband or I will end up having a heart attack." He responded by bringing cheesecake to her door.