Bloomberg: No Corruption Here, Folks

Mayor Bloomberg participating in Mother Teresa Day of Service. (Edward Reed/NYC Mayor's Office Flickr)

Despite an FBI study that shows many former police officers were pressure to fudge crime statistics, Mayor Bloomberg insists that nobody is trying to hide anything nowadays. He said on his radio show, "No. You know, it's, in this day and age, I love this, gonna cook the books. With the press talking all the time, with everybody having Twitter and Facebook and everything, do you really think you could keep anything private anymore? C'mon." Twitter: Keeping cops honest since 2006.

The FBI study also includes data from the city's hospitals. Though the NYPD reports that felony assaults have decreased over the past decade, the Department of Health says the number of people admitted to city hospitals for assault has nearly doubled over the same period. Though the numbers are tough to compare, researcher John A. Eterno told the Times the data does point to even more falsified numbers. He said, "Emergency room visits are not going to happen just because somebody needs a Band-Aid. Somebody is going to go there because they’ve been seriously assaulted.”

Bloomberg also insisted that whatever pressure is there to keep crime down will remain, book cooking or not. But is there pressure on the individual police officer or sergeant, lieutenant, captain, inspector, chief, to bring crime down? Enormous, and it's going to be more. We are not going to tolerate crime. Period....But they're not cooking the books." For what it's worth, the latest crime statistics show murder is up 16.4% this year, rape is up 15.2% and felony assault is up 0.4%. Overall crime is down 1.42%.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on August 29, 2010 11:13 AM

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jpeditor

Where's the investigation of Bloomberg's investments in Dubai and his support of the 9/11 Jihadi Victory Mosque?

John L

Bloomberg is a fucking liar and he needs to fire Ray Kelly.

exnyer

The infamous "solid blue curtain" has been replaced with "see through lace".

ANGRYGOD11

Bloomie is ignoring the recordings some cops made of supervisors telling them not to register crimes and keep the stats low. Bloomie will have to deal with retired cops who will gladly tell the truth after the pension checks start coming.

Does Bloomie really want to keep playing this game?

dgeee

Just what does anyone think the little corporate fascist bone smoker would say, "Yeah, we cooked the books..."?

Reflect

Obviously it dont even take twitter to come out.

Those hospital stats have u pawned.

For the inept that is..

verbal

"The media", he IS the media.

Little lord fauntleroy citizen kane napoleon mussolini midget bastard.

What a lying sack of shit this guy is - he is a disgrace.

sjack

When Adrian Schoolcraft came foward, the NYPD kidnapped him from his house and comitted him to an insane asylum.

I'm sure that other cops would be real comfortable using Facebook or Twitter to expose corruption, there's no way they would be fired, transfered, or fucking kidnapped.

JacqueMehoff

then he wouldn't mind a thorough investigation and audit and with the full support and cooperation of his administration and PC kelly.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

twitter keeps crime stats honest? wtf is this queen talking about now?

potsmoker

were pressureD.

amazing how deskjockeys and politicians can fudge numbers, murders are up, rapes are up. felony assaults are up, but crime is down overall.

sure you get a better average by including nonsense like jaywalking, subway fare evasion and pot possesion and the overall outlook looks brighter for the media and politicans.

the jist of the recent village voice stories are about fudging numbers and refusing to report single complainer calls with unknown perps. thats why BURGLARIES AND GRAND LARCENIES ARE DOWN, because they dont require coorborating emergency room visits, meanwhile hospital visits reported as assualts are up, but theres no matching police data, that means that someone is cooking the books.

Guest

kNOw corruption here, folks -- no lots of it.

Guest

oh, i didn't even read the article before posting -- way to accidentally become a bloomberg hater. i just don't agree with his stance on salt and cigarettes; everything else i can live with.