Cop: I got proof of bogus crime stats
AN NYPD sergeant who complained his precinct was fudging crime statistics taped a conversation with a victim to back up his allegations.
A Queens woman who reported her ex-boyfriend stole two flat-screen TVS told Sgt. Robert Borrelli that officers urged her not to write down what was taken.
“I didn't write every single detail because they said, ‘Make it short and sweet,’ ” the woman, 22, says on the November tape.
“They just said, ‘You know, write down that he came into your home, smashed your stuff and that was it.’ So I wrote down what they told me to.”
The boyfriend was arrested but charged only with criminal mischief.
As the Daily News reported on Sunday, Borrelli has told internal investigators that supervisors at the 100th Precinct cooked the books by classifying felonies as misdemeanors that wouldn’t affect the command's crime rate.
He’s been transferred to the Bronx and faces disci- pline for an unrelated matter, which he claims is retaliation.
In addition to the conversation with the waitress ripped off by her ex, Borrelli recorded conversations with investigators from the Quality Assurance Division in which he reported that crimes were not being documented.
One of the incidents involved an off-duty firefighter who was not arrested after being caught on video breaking into a lot to take back his car after a private tow company removed it from a street in Breezy Point.
“[The firefighter] committed a crime,” Borrelli told the investigators. “And nothing was done about it.”
The NYPD says Borrelli gave them paperwork for 12 complaints and four of them were reclassified after an investigation.