Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly laid down the law to the NYPD: Make it easier for New Yorkers to report crimes and make each one of them count.
In a memo issued last week and obtained by the Daily News, Kelly provided a veritable ‘Policing 101’ refresher.
The operational order spells out in painstaking detail the steps cops are supposed to take when someone wants to report a crime. It also warns cops to eliminate excuses for not taking complaints from victims.
Police officers were told to take reports even if:
- The victim can’t identify the suspect.
- Someone can’t provide a receipt for stolen items.
- The victim refuses to view photographs.
- The complainant won’t speak with detectives.
- The victim doesn’t want to prosecute an offender.
The memo urges police officers not to refer crime victims to another precinct if the crimes didn’t happen in their command. And Kelly reminds cops not to tell people to return to crime scenes and call 911 after they’ve come to a police station to report a crime.
The operations order issued on Tuesday comes, as the NYPD and others are investigating claims that police officers — under pressure to make the city appear safer — are fudging stats or making it difficult for people to report crimes.
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Ballsy move by Kelly, considering his office has been threatening Precinct Commanders for the last 10 years to keep the crime stats down by intimidating cops and crime victims to the point of discouraging them from taking/making a report. One day the truth about how COMPSTAT really operates will come out, and it will not go well for Kelly.
The names were changed to protect the GUILTY.
Kelly tells cops to take reports
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I gotta get new glasses! I thought it said "Kelly tells cops to fake reports".
Keep them comming Kelly,it's about time. I can't tell you how many times I myself have asked an officer to take a report and they just tell you to go to the precint. Now once at the precint they decide if your report is worthy of their time.
Also, just read Kelly aparently finally got around to check out the kareoke bars/drug and prostitute dens right here in Flushing. is there an election coming up/..Humm
Keep them comming Kelly,it's about time. I can't tell you how many times I myself have asked an officer to take a report and they just tell you to go to the precint. Now once at the precint they decide if your report is worthy of their time.
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All on Kelly's original instructions. He is a lying, backstabbing hypocrite, another midget who rules on intimidation and retaliation. Now he is going to hang some cops out as scapegoates, simply for follow the instructions he beat into every boss and cop for the past ten years. Anyone who votes for him for mayor is a complete idiot.
There must be some new fed anti-crime $$$ in the pipeline.Crank up the reports to make it look like we need the cash.Or go back to the ole shitcanning days in 2013 so the numbers compared to 2012 will be very low? or is there federal oversight hovering above??
He has to tell them? The man has been police commissioner for more than a decade! Great job Kelly.
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