New York Daily News

STATS FuDGED

No blood? No report

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None were recorded from July through December 2016.

It also created a “press” category to track visits media made to shelters without permission in that same time frame. Twentyone were recorded.

In the year before homeless services overhauled its definition of “critical incidents,” dozens of events occurred that the city will no longer count. They include: l 54 reports of resident drug possession — including heroin and marijuana — from Jan. 1 2015 to June 30, 2016. l 121 child abuse reports that didn’t result in an arrest or removal of a child.

That tracking had shown some disturbing incidets.

In one example, staff at the Sammon B.U.I.L.D. Center in the Bronx discovered that a 1-year-old boy had crawled out of a fourthfloo­r window on to the fire escape and managed to work his way all the way to the first floor.

Staff rescued the child and returned him to his mom. The mother, the incident report stated, “appeared agitated that she was being asked questions.”

It was written up at the time — but because no city child welfare agency intervened, it now wouldn’t be recorded as a “critical incident.”

In another example, a couple who was staying at the Flagstone Family Residence in Brownsvill­e, Brooklyn, got into a fight as a child stood between them.

The incident report said the couple “both grab an arm of their 3-year-old son standing next to them” and “began a tug of war with his arms to take their child.”

Staff intervened and the father left. The NYPD was summoned but there were no arrests — meaning it now would not be counted.

Finally arrests the city once felt were worth counting are no longer considered “critical incidents.” Take, for instance, a February 2016 incident reported as “arrest for criminal activity - non-violent.”

Staff at a Bronx shelter looked out the window and saw one of their residents bolting down Broadway in the middle of the afternoon. In hot pursuit were three uniformed cops and an NYPD patrol vehicle.

Cops grabbed the client and cuffed him. His alleged crime: He had just robbed a Citibank two blocks up from the shelter.

Under the protocol in effect at the time, homeless services counted this as a “critical incident.”

It’s not anymore.

 ??  ?? Homicide victim’s body is removed from East Harlem shelter in 2016. Graphic (right) shows how a several categories of incidents were removed between January and July of 2016. Homeless services honcho Steven Banks (below) instituted that change....
Homicide victim’s body is removed from East Harlem shelter in 2016. Graphic (right) shows how a several categories of incidents were removed between January and July of 2016. Homeless services honcho Steven Banks (below) instituted that change....

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