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Brooklyn cop Adrian Schoolcraft was thrown into a psych ward after he accused bosses of fudging crime stats.

The feds want to talk to the whistle-blowing Brooklyn cop who says NYPD brass tossed him into a psych ward after he accused supervisors of cooking the books on crime stats.

FBI Looking to Interview NYPD Crime Stat Whistleblower

Brooklyn cop Adrian Schoolcraft was thrown into a psych ward after he accused bosses of fudging crime stats.

The feds want to talk to the whistle-blowing Brooklyn cop who says NYPD brass tossed him into a psych ward after he accused supervisors of cooking the books on crime stats.

The civil rights division of the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn has requested an interview with Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, the Daily News has learned.

Schoolcraft could not be reached. His lawyer, Jon Norinsberg, declined to comment. The U.S. attorney’s office also declined to comment.

Sources said the cop has not decided if he’ll meet with the feds.

Schoolcraft accused commanders at the 81st Precinct of badgering or ignoring residents who try to file crime reports and classifying felonies as misdemeanors. The precinct’s commanding officer, Deputy Inspector Steven Mauriello, was transferred to the Bronx transit unit in July. Cops say the transfer had nothing to do with Schoolcraft’s claims.

Schoolcraft is suing the NYPD and Jamaica Hospital for $50 million.

A federal probe into the integrity of the city’s crime stats could spell big trouble for Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

Both constantly tout the city’s low crime rate, which is based on data the NYPD gives the FBI.

Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University Law School, said any inquiry could mushroom.

“It’s not impossible that what the U.S. attorney is looking at is some possibility that this particular precinct has become a law unto itself,” Giller said

The NYPD did not respond to a request to interview Kelly, and the mayor’s office had no comment.

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By Rocco Parascandola for the NY Daily News

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11 Comments

  • HERO

    Officer Schoolcraft is a hero!

    What was done to him is like what the Communists do to people they perceive as non-sympathizers!

    I hope the truth comes out. The civil rights of the citizens in that precinct — and also probably in the 71st –have likely been violated, if crimes are ignored, made less of, and are being undercounted.

    I can tell you, from first hand experience, that the 71st’s statistics are definitely manipulated in ways like this.

    I hope the big balloon of the Bloomberg regime finally bursts. Then it will be shown for what it is — just like the regimes of so many, R”L, in the US these days — a lot of hot air.

    And may the Officer win BIG, BIG, BIG in his lawsuit against the NYPD and the hospital.

  • Hwye Knott

    I myself have had crime reports(robberies) “lost”, by the NYC police. I once had a big fight with my insurer because of a missing police report. They get trashed or buried. And that’s only the ones the police can’t talk you out of filing in the first place. I once spent 8 hours at the 71’st trying to file an assault report against a known (goy) against my son. I succeeded only after a change of shift and the detective on the new shift agreed to file a report. Although there was never a prosecution, the filing of the report was enough to get the neighborhood perp to back off!!

    I an convinced that the NYCPD are guilty of obstruction of justice and filing false reports with the FBI regarding crime levels. Same as Martha Stewart!!!

  • Boruch

    I always hear the mayor touting low crime. It’s like the soviets that used to tout Russia as the best quality of life on the planet. Anyone that doesn’t suffer blindness knows that the crime is out of control. Just the crime perpetrated by NYC cops are greater than the crime of an average US city.

  • Yosef

    All of a sudden all you guys are anti cop, but when u listen to hush limbow and Shaen Hanitee you are pro cop?

  • The buck stops here

    Crown Heights is the capital of crooked statistics. People (read: Jews) are subtly threatened not to report any crimes that would appear to be hate crimes. Many of us have experienced this.

  • Who Seed Watt

    I have even had the employees at the CHJCC try to talk me out of filing a report. “We need the police department’s cooperation”, she said!

  • AH

    To Yosef:

    “hush limbow”? “Shaen Hanitee”? Please tell me you’re not serious.

    But just in case you are:

    To the extent that the cops do their job, standing as “the thin blue line” protecting us from criminals and from general anarchy – and there are many NYC police officers who do so magnificently, including some who have lost their lives in that role – then we salute them and support them.

    But to the extent that they use their power to harass people for “victimless” issues (double-parking during street cleaning, for example), or try to suppress crime reports in order to make themselves look good – then we condemn them.

    Clear now?