Thanks to Eli Silverman for backing me up on COMPSTAT

RE: [Unveiling Compstat] New comment on Immunity Granted, Immunity Denied. Eli Silverman [estcompany@optonline.net] You replied on 10/29/2011 2:03 PM. Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 1:10 PM To: Pepinsky, Harold E. Attachments: Hal Yes you were right on 2000. We posted your comment. You have every right to feel vindicated. If you wish to read even more disturbing info about Schoolcraft, try going to the Village Voice and see series under “The NYPD tapes; You will find it very revelatory. We have gone into great detail regarding the New York situation and other Cities, including internationally, in a forthcoming book which is entitled “The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation.” Best regards Eli From: Hal [mailto:pepinsky@indiana.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:01 PM To: estcompany@optonline.net Subject: [Unveiling Compstat] New comment on Immunity Granted, Immunity Denied. Hal has left a new comment on your post "Immunity Granted, Immunity Denied": Remember my review of your earlier book criticizing COMPSTAT? I don't know if you've seen this from me recently. I'm so glad you recognize police crime/criminality counting generally and COMPSTAT can't be done: I wrote the following blog in response to an extended segment of "This American Life" indicating massive underreporting of crimes and false public order arrests to meet quotas in Brooklyn, and probably throughout NYPD. The link to this week's "right to remain silent" segment is http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent . The transcript is at http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/transcript . So much for the face validity of crime and criminality statistics. ________________________________________ From: Pepinsky, Harold E. Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:37 PM To: Pepinsky, Harold E. Subject: COMPSTAT news NEW YORK CRIME STATS ARE CONCOCTIONS Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, pepinsky.blogspot.com October 22, 2011 Today on “This American Life,” most of the program was about how from roll call to the very top of the NYPD, since its inception in 1994, the much touted crime reporting system known as COMPSTAT is bogus. The TAL segment is essentially an interview with former officer Adrian Schoolcraft and playing of clips of the recordings he made from when he was first ordered at roll call to make numbers on summonses to how senior commanders have him taken away to a psychiatric ward. It’s quite a drama. I googled Adrian Schoolcraft and found this NYT story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/nyregion/10quotas.html?pagewanted=all In “Living Criminologically with Naked Emperors” (http://critcrim.org/ critpapers/pepinsky1.pdf) first published in the Criminal Justice Policy Review in 2000, I argued that COMPSTAT’s reputed success in controlling crime in New York was a well-established pattern of focusing on arrests and downgrading or not recording crime. I feel vindicated. Schoolcraft indicates that my speculation was entirely correct. As far as I can see, police crime recording always has been and always will be politically corrupt, transparently so from the outset. Love and peace, hal Publish Delete Mark as spam Moderate comments for this blog. Posted by Hal to Unveiling Compstat at October 27, 2011 3:00 PM No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 2092/3978 - Release Date: 10/27/11
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NEW YORK CRIME STATS ARE CONCOCTIONS

Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, pepinsky.blogspot.com

October 22, 2011

Today on “This American Life,” most of the program was about how from roll call to the very top of the NYPD, since its inception in 1994, the much touted crime reporting system known as COMPSTAT is bogus. The TAL segment is essentially an interview with former officer Adrian Schoolcraft and playing of clips of the recordings he made from when he was first ordered at roll call to make numbers on summonses to how senior commanders have him taken away to a psychiatric ward. It’s quite a drama.

I googled Adrian Schoolcraft and found this NYT story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/nyregion/10quotas.html?pagewanted=all

In “Living Criminologically with Naked Emperors” (http://critcrim.org/critpapers/pepinsky1.pdf) first published in the Criminal Justice Policy Review in 2000, I argued that COMPSTAT’s reputed success in controlling crime in New York was a well-established pattern of focusing on arrests and downgrading or not recording crime. I feel vindicated. Schoolcraft that my speculation was entirely correct. As far as I can see, police crime recording always has been and always be politically corrupt, transparently so from the outset. Love and peace, hal

goodby Gaddafi

I'm glad that what to do with or in support of Gaddafi is literally a dead issue. Was he tortured at the end for a minutes? How easily we dismiss torture and extrajudicial killing when it continues to be US govt policy. Last summer, July I think it was, I blogged that Gaddafi was a dead man. As it had to be, so happily for Libyans Gaddafi is bygone.


Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, pepinsky.blogspot.com, 519 Evergreen Circle, Worthington, OH 43085-3667, 1-614-885-6341

back home

home sweet home
Pepinsky, Harold E.

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Jill and I have moved back to the house my parents and I had built and moved into in 1957. The first two attached pictures look show the face of the main house and look south outside from the main living area. The main house is rated at just 1040 sq. ft. with 3 study/bedrooms and 2 full baths, a marvel of organic design. The next two pictures first look north from the living area to the guest house, which I nominally helped build in 1959, with fewer than 500 sq. ft., and then look out from inside at the view I now have from what has become my office. We can easily accommodate 6 guests. Stop on by. Note the new/old address and phone number below.
I'm home in one house or the other most of the time. Stop by for a visit anytime. love and peace--hal


Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, pepinsky.blogspot.com, 519 Evergreen Circle, Worthington, OH 43085-3667, 1-614-885-6341