You know the attacks of 9/11? Well they actually took place on 9/12. Shhhhhh, its a big secret! And it wasn’t just the Twin Towers that were attacked but Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, Ebbets Field, and Scores, as well. (The current buildings standing in their former places are actually CG holograms.) And the extra 25,000 killed that day were replaced by clones developed by the evil genius’s in Police Headquarters. (the families don’t suspect a thing!)

And the NYPD, under the stewardship of the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations really didn’t prevent some 500-1500 murders a year since 1993 either. No, there is actually a super secret vault under the old Polo-Grounds where the bodies of about 10,000 homicide victims are stored in freezers. What did we say to the victims families when they tried to file missing person reports, you ask? This is the really clever part: we said ‘your loved one was not murdered, he’s not even missing, he just went for a reeeaaally long walk. He’ll probably be home any time now.’

Any other inside info you plan on blowing the whistle about?

That’s a lie.

“I conceded in a previous post that such isolated incidents do occur but are extremely rare.”

That’s another lie. They are not at all rare. As I showed, and Lenny Levitt and Rocco Parascandola and Paul Moses and Larry Celona and Bill Rashbaum and many other journalists have shown, the incidents are typical and systemic. I challenge you to take the trouble to read the aforementioned journalists’ exposes, and to write to them that their “allegations are absolutely absurd, and yes both bizarre and paranoid.”

Maybe you’ll prove me wrong, but I don’t think you’ve got the integrity to do it.

“As far as your anecdotal ‘evidence’ from hospitals are concerned, the simple answer is that many people are treated at hospitals for injuries (which may or may not be crime related) that are either not reported to the PD or the ‘victim’ refuses to make a report when police respond – I’ve dealt with this phenomenon a number of times.”

Yet another lie. The evidence was not anecdotal, and the wounds in question were not due to accidents. (Although an anecdote—“short account of an incident”—can be evidence. Crime statistics are nothing but aggregations of anecdotes.) And if massive numbers of crime victims are refusing to cooperate with the police, and the crimes they endured are not being counted as such, that gives the lie to the NYPD’s (and your) claims of crime reductions. And if numbers of crime victims insufficient to be statistically significant are refusing to cooperate, why even bring up the issue, except as a red herring?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anecdote

“The men and women serving in the NYPD are some of the very best, most decent, and honest people I know. I should know – I work with them each and every day (and somehow I’ve lived to tell about it!) I don’t appreciate your slandering us.”

“Slander” involves lying. The only one lying here is you.

The worst part of all is that unless you’ve been driving a desk for the past 14 years, you know better than anyone else at this site that what I’m saying is true. I could understand racist black and Hispanic cops lying about the job, but I don’t know how “sensitized,” diversity-trained, lying white cops can live with themselves. Have you no shame?

I used to always defend cops, and I still write about what honest cops are up against. As a kid, I knew lots of honorable coppers … and some less than honorable ones. Hell, I named my son after a hero cop. But if you think I’m going to go along with your lies and cover for you and other cops who have dishonored the job and dragged it through the mud, you’re crazy. You need to come clean.

I suggest again that anyone interested in the truth read mine and Paul Moses’ articles.

Stix: “‘Disappearing’ Urban Crime”
http://www.vdare.com/stix/040526_crime.htm

Moses: “These Stats are a Crime”
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0544,moses,69552,5.html

Also:

Stix: “Solving Philly Crime with an Eraser:
The ‘Good Irishman’ and the Race Man”
http://geocities.com/nstix/phillyii.html

Stix: “De-Policing in America’s Cities: Erasing the ‘Thin Blue Line’”
http://geocities.com/nstix/thinblueline.html

Stix: “The War on the Police”
http://geocities.com/nstix/waronpolice.html

Enter Rod Serling.

The quotes from the PBA and SBA (which happens to be my union) refered to specific incidents which were investigated and adjudicated. I conceded in a previous post that such isolated incidents do occur but are extremely rare.

As far as your anecdotal “evidence” from hospitals are concerned, the simple answer is that many people are treated at hospitals for injuries (which may or may not be crime related) that are either not reported to the PD or the “victim” refuses to make a report when police respond – I’ve dealt with this phenomenon a number of times.

The men and women serving in the NYPD are some of the very best, most decent, and honest people I know. I should know – I work with them each and every day (and somehow I’ve lived to tell about it!) I don’t appreciate your slandering us.

Your allegations are absolutely absurd, and yes both bizarre and paranoid.

From Paul Moses’ “These Stats are a Crime: While Bloomberg boasts of crime drop, the hospitals’ work on assault victims is booming”

“Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been free to spend his fortune on campaign advertisements touting the continued drop in crimes police have reported. His campaign website declares that, under Bloomberg, ‘the neighborhoods of New York have become safer than ever.’

“Tell that to the people in the emergency rooms.

“The number of people who went to New York City hospitals because they were assaulted jumped sharply in four of the last five years for which figures are available—a direct contrast to the plunging number of assaults the NYPD reported.

“These hospital visits are numbered in official statistics of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Injury Epidemiology—every bit as official as the heavily publicized police department data showing fewer and fewer serious assaults ‘known to the police’ during the same years.

“This continued drop in reported crimes is a cornerstone of Bloomberg’s re-election drive, ever present in the advertising he’s bought for what’s likely the most expensive municipal election campaign in U.S. history. He’s made it his own.

“But the stark contrast between these two sets of official statistics demonstrates again the need for a thorough, independent probe of the police department’s crime reports. And it shows how wrong it was for the Bloomberg administration to have allowed the NYPD to thwart a probe earlier this year of the crime statistics.

“According to health statistics on the city government’s website, more and more assault victims flocked to emergency rooms for four years in a row. In 2002, the last year for which data is available and Bloomberg’s first year in office, the number of assault victims either hospitalized or treated in emergency rooms shot up 6 percent from the year before.

“Not to worry: The police department reported a 10 percent drop in aggravated assaults, according to FBI records.

“No matter how much money is poured into touting these numbers, there is ample reason to question them.

“That’s what the city’s Commission to Combat Police Corruption, a panel of mayoral appointees, wanted to do. It was a reasonable move, given that the leaders of the police officers’ and sergeants’ unions had charged publicly that the books were cooked.

“Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch had said that officers ‘are forced to falsify stats in order to maintain the appearance of a drastic reduction in crime,’ the Daily News reported. And Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins said his sergeants had witnessed assaults being downgraded to harassment cases.”

Critics may counter: “So what are you saying, they’re hiding bodies?!”

Not at all. Keep in mind: most crime reporters do not ride late at night in subway cars to observe crime firsthand, drive through city streets listening to police scanners and racing to crime scenes, or take inventory at city morgues. They are more likely to ride through the city in taxicabs. Many seem to know—or want to know—only why police officials deign to tell them. And these officials simply refuse to report many violent felonies.

Detectives engage in the wholesale “unfounding” of crimes i.e. determine that allegation were “unfounded.” And murders are reclassified as non-criminal deaths. But in most cases, crime is “disappeared” by the street officer who engages in “creative writing,” turning felonies into misdemeanors or non-crimes. (An additional crime statistic reduction strategy, “de-policing,” withdrawing police from embarrassing confrontation with criminals, is beyond the scope of this essay.)

It’s been going on for years:

On October 11, 1995, reporter William K. Rashbaum, then of the New York Daily News, published a memo he’d obtained from the 50th Precinct in The Bronx. The memo, by precinct commander, Capt. Anthony Kissik, instructed officers in the art of defining down crimes from felonies to misdemeanors or even non-crimes (e.g., a felony assault would be changed to a misdemeanor case of “harassment.”)

On January 29, 1996, Newsday’s Leonard Levitt reported on two rapes, one murder, and one fatal shooting of a car thief by a police officer (which was eventually counted as a homicide [that is not the same as murder]) from the previous December, none of which had been reported by the NYPD. The NYPD brass insisted (get this!) that a mysterious, unnamed reporter had stolen the crime reports. Levitt found out about the incidents from relatives of the victims. [The nefarious, thieving reporter has yet to be brought to justice.]

On October 29, 1996, Captain Louis Vega, commander of the 41st Precinct in the South Bronx, was suspended without pay in a crime statistic fraud scandal. The Daily News quoted a stationhouse source as saying, “in any precinct you could go in and come up with complaints where the charges should be higher. There is tremendous pressure on precinct commanders to produce lower numbers.”

Captain Vega’s mistake was apparently in violating the first law of lying: Plausibility.

Crime was allegedly down 14% in the South Bronx overall from Jan. 1 to October 20, 1996 compared to the same period in 1995. But Vega reported a 40% crime reduction in his precinct.

On January 1998, the NYPD’s Transit Bureau was caught fudging violent crime stats. Bureau Chief William Donoghue was forced to resign. NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir, apparently a master of fuzzy math, insisted that the fraudulent underreporting of subway crime by 20 percent did not affect the NYPD’s overall crime statistics: “While a true portrait of citywide crime was being painted, a somewhat skewed picture of crime in the subway was being put forth.”

But two months into the administration of liberal Democrat-turned-Republican Michael Bloomberg, reporter Larry Celona wrote in the March 14, 2002 New York Post, that a rape that had been committed in the 50th Precinct

“was logged as a lesser crime—thus giving a rare look into what some beat cops say is a statistical sleight of hand used by their commanders.

“According to many patrol officers, commanders sometimes reclassify major crimes like murder, assault, robbery and rape as lesser offenses to make it appear they are winning the war on crime….

“… the March 8 rape of a woman at a Bailey Avenue hotel was recorded as an ‘inconclusive’ incident. Only on Tuesday, after The Post started asking questions, was the crime properly classified as rape.”
(This redefining of a rape as an “inconclusive incident” is a speciality of the Philadelphia PD which for years, according to the FBI, has conquered crime through the simple expedient of finding victim complaints “unfounded.” The Philadelphia PD also pioneered the method of disappearing burglaries through redefining them as the non-crime of “lost/stolen property.” According to a 1998 Philadelphia Inquirer report, “Among police, the practice is called ‘going down with crime.’”)

On June 30, 2003, in ”Crime Statistics Doubts Adding Up,” Newsday’s Leonard Levitt detailed the reality behind the “reduction in crime”:

The punishment-by-transfer of an officer in The Bronx (again from the 50th Precinct!) who refused to downgrade a felony to a misdemeanor;

A former police official having to intercede on a victim’s behalf, to get detectives who had refused to help the victim to take down a crime report;

A Brooklyn precinct commander discouraging robbery victims from reporting crimes, by refusing to permit the uniformed officer at the scene from taking down a report;

A multiple-officer tag team talking victims out of filing crime reports;

Reusing the complaint number of a disappeared crime for a new case, in order to eliminate the first crime’s paper trail;

Keeping two sets of books for a precinct’s crime statistics.

More recently, in March 22, Levitt and Rocco Parascandola reported on the case of former 50th Precinct commander Thomas DiRusso. From 2000-2003, when Deputy Inspector DiRusso was on the job, crime allegedly fell 26%, but in the first 10 weeks after he left the precinct in January, 2004, to head up Brooklyn South Narcotics, crime in the “5-0” allegedly increased by 11.2%.

Deputy Inspector DiRusso was reportedly aggressive at reducing crime reports.

Officers told Levitt and Parascandola, that, when restaurant deliverymen were robbed and sought help from the precinct, DiRusso ran them off, threatening to ticket them for riding their bicycles on the sidewalk. His officers were also in the habit of refusing to take down crime reports from victims.

Rather than investigate DiRusso, the NYPD has stood by their man.

The reality of “disappeared” crime contradicts the managed impression that a revolution in police methods has saved New York over the past ten or so. The revolution has credited to two new policies: “broken windows” policing and “COMPSTAT” (computer statistics).

As I already said, during Giuliani’s first term, I felt less safe than before, due to the NYPD’s increasing hostility to white victims of black criminals. But since then I recalled how incalculably worse my quality of life became under Giuliani, as black racists of all social classes felt so confident of avoiding punishment that they committed racial attacks on white men during work hours, in public places in front of many witnesses, including in midtown Manhattan. Racially sycophantic white police officers were often the worst enemy a white crime victim could have. A white defense attorney I know who has handled such cases recently told me that it is virtually impossible for a white man who successfully defends himself against a racial attack, to get any justice. The best the victim can hope for is to avoid prison time.

You don’t know enough New Yorkers.

Osonitsch: “The allegation that crime statistics are bogus is quite simply false.”

Osonitsch redux: 47. “For my part, not surprisingly, it is only part one of Mr. Stix’s post with which I generally agree. The rest is a kind of bizarre and somewhat paranoid list of inuendo and conspiracy theory not supported (or supportable) by facts.”

Patrick Mulligan: 48. “Simply labeling someone a racist, bizarre, paranoid conspiracy theorist doesn’t really raise any issues as to what he actually said.”

Jeff Osonitsch: 49. “I never called him any of those things, what I wrote was ‘the rest [of his post] was a kind of bizarre and paranoid list.’”

But of course you called me those things.

The NYPD’s crime statistics have been exposed as fraudulent so many times since 1995, that only someone willfully ignorant or dishonest could deny it. That Mayor Mike Bloomberg would deny it, when challenged on the matter, is hardly surprising.

Did you take the trouble to read either of the articles I linked to?

(“‘Disappearing’ Urban Crime”
http://www.vdare.com/stix/040526_crime.htm)

“These Stats are a Crime”
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0544,moses,69552,5.html

From “‘Disappearing’ Urban Crime”

“… That made for at least five shootings on December 8.

“A few weeks later, I asked NYPD press rep Officer Kathie Kelly if there had been any shootings on December 8. She told me she’d get back to me.

“Later, she informed me: ‘There were no shootings on the eighth.’

“Since 1991, I have fought off at least eight racial attacks, including two attempted muggings. All were ‘disappeared’ by police or prosecutors—even when I had bloody wounds; when the police had been called to the scene by a subway motorman or (unbeknownst to me) an anonymous witness who corroborated my depiction of events; or when the attack took place on camera, in front of a black postal police officer. (In 1994, a black New Jersey bus driver who had recently fled Brooklyn, suggested that in New York, crime victims require legal representation no less than defendants, if they wish their cases prosecuted.)

“And the fudging of crime statistics is not just a story in the Naked City.

“On October 23, 2003, five New Orleans police officers—including First District captain, Norvel Orazio, a 29-year veteran, who had won awards for reducing crime—were fired, and a sixth was demoted, for improperly downgrading crime complaints so that they would not show up in crime statistics.

“On February 20, an audit of Atlanta’s police records showed that the suppression and loss of crime records was endemic for many years, with 22,000 police reports of 911 calls disappearing in 2002 alone.

“Similar mini-scandals have also occurred in recent years in Philadelphia and Boca Raton, Florida.

“Urban police departments have for years been under intense pressure to reduce violent crime. But blacks and Hispanics have a virtual monopoly over urban violent crime. (In New York City in 1998, 89.2 percent of suspects in violent crimes were black or Hispanic.) And police officials dare not offend outraged black and Hispanic criminals, or their supporters in the media and in politics who constantly invent ‘racial profiling’ hoaxes.

“The police’s job is impossible. And so, instead of policing hoodlums, today’s modern, urban police managers aggressively police … impressions. The ‘disappearing’ of crime is one of their leading impression management methods.

I do appreciate your Comment. As I said in my post to Mr Stix, I will unreservedly apologize to him if I have misconstrued him, and if you are right that I have, he may take this as such an apology. And I will even up the offer to remedy my error to complimentary copies of both my books (since the first book deals with what I say below).

Before I get to that, however, please let me say that I did not take your Comment about Europe to be a personal attack. I was not being sarcastic when I said that I pretty much agree with you. Much of what I have written says, I think, exactly that, and even for much the same reasons you advance (see, for example, my “Heard Man in Europe” quote on my web site).

Turning to the issue in hand, I do actually know something about ‘reverse discrimination’. When I first arrived in Britain in 1978, the anti-apartheid movement was in full swing. I was white, and I was South African – and that was enough for most people to condemn me.

Few people ever asked why I left South Africa (for reasons I shall not go into here, I deserted the military; and had I been apprehended in Rhodesia where I had escaped to, would have spent a considerable part of my life rotting in a SA prison). The fact that I had the wrong accent and color was enough for them. So, even though I had been to university in SA, the best job I could get at first was cleaning toilets and mowing lawns in a caravan site.

But I had faith that there were enough people out there who could look beyond the outward, and I was right. Notwithstanding the seemingly endless stream of hostile rejections and insults, and without jumping on the anti-apartheid bandwagon myself, I managed to crawl my way up thanks to those people who were prepared to stand up to the notion that simply being white and South African (and not embracing the anti-apartheid movement), was sufficient reason to condemn a person.

When I was at university in England, a song was released called “I’ve never met a nice South African” – meaning white South African. Whenever I went into a bar, people delighted in playing the song on the juke box. It was all great fun for them, and I accommodated them by doing a little dance to the tune. I could see them for the morons they were. For them, of course, it could not be ‘racist’ to hate a ‘white South African racist’.

When the idiot Blair and his Liberal Fundamentalist cohorts gained power in Britain with their ideology of ‘isms’ and ‘phobias’, it was clear to me that they were intent on finding and criminalizing a ‘bigot’ in every nook and cranny of the country – so I packed up and left.

So personally, I think every one should be free to like and dislike whomever he pleases, so long as his likes and dislikes are not mobilized to interfere with the freedom of such people. If 95% of blacks are committed of a crime after a fair trial, and incarcerated, I have no problem with that. If 95% of whites are likewise convicted, I have no problem with that either. The problem I have is with condemning the other 5% who may have done nothing wrong – and that is usually where condemning entire peoples ends up. [I have a different opinion, however, when it comes to Islam – that to me is an ideology, nothing to do with race].

The book offer still stands by the way.

Joseph BH McMillan http://www.freedomvrights.com

I think you have misconstrued what Stix was trying to convey. For instance, when he said,

“he [Giuliani] inherited a city that was universally considered to be ungovernable, and which was in thrall to murderous racist demagogues. Between the demagogues, who threatened to burn the city down, and the despicable, racist media that supported them, Giuliani was faced with the sort of organized hatred that would guaranteed the failure of many a strong man. Indeed, as I have written, I think had I faced such organized evil, might have ended up eating the business end of a .38.”

I don’t think there was any “racist” intent there. What he is stating is simply a description (at least in his view) of the state of affairs in New York pre-Giuliani. I’m sure you’re aware, for example, of the Bernard Goetz incident and the racial demagogues, such as Al Sharpton, who tried to exploit it to instigate racial tensions. And I believe that last sentence there is supposed to read, “Giuliani was faced with the sort of organized hatred that would [have] guaranteed the failure of many a strong man. Indeed, as I have written, I think had I faced such organized evil, [I] might have ended up eating the business end of a .38.”

Your interpretation of “they might have ended up eating the business end of a .38″ doesn’t really make sense in the context of the sentence and its structure.

In any case, I think you really have to be reading into that passage to infer that it is a racist tract against Jews and blacks, or advocating the killing of such. Which was my initial point in the first place – I think you drew a lot of unintended inferences because of your past experience with Mr. Stix. Also, I was in no way calling you personally a fascist thought-policeman or trying to disparage you – that wasn’t my intention at all. It was just an observation on the insane zealotry of political correctness in European countries and the danger of jumping to conclusions based on it. Like I said, I’m not trying to take sides, I’m just very suspicious of knee-jerk accusations of racism without any substantive reasoning.

I’m trying to work out how else I could ‘interpret’ what he has said in both.

Here is what he said above: “Between the demagogues, who threatened to burn the city down [blacks], and the despicable, racist media that supported them [Jews, it sounds to me], Giuliani was faced with the sort of organized hatred [by the above races, perhaps?] that would guaranteed the failure of many a strong man. Indeed, as I have written, I think had I faced such organized evil, [they] might have ended up eating the business end of a .38.” The square brackets are mine.

It seems to me that the ‘slur’ racist was invoked by Mr Stix, not me.

If you choose to construe what else I have said in the manner you have, that is your prerogative. However, to get a better perspective of my position, perhaps I should send you a copy of my book – it will undoubtedly dispel your delusions of my position. I’ll send it ‘gratis’ as they say over here in “fascist, thought-policing Europe” – a description, I should add, on which I pretty much agree with you.

Joseph BH McMillan http://www.freedomvrights.com