From my friends a couple who are still on duty in NY, there are a lot more crimes that never get logged in as crimes. I have a buddy I met back in the 80's who was one if not the youngest to make Dective third grade, he started with TNT then vice, major crimes, and Robbery Homicide, I know him since he joined, a happy go lucky kid, half italian, half Jewish. As the years went by, he got just about every medal the dept. could give out, but he lost his marriage, and became a shell of a man, and what he saw that sounds exciting to tell the storys, actually eats up the good out of your soul. I met him when the Joel Steinberg case was big news back in the day. Most cops just laugh at the process, as for every abuser caught, a hundred get away. My buddy used to get his mug in the papers quite often. He shot an old lady, according to the papers, and did a year of desk duty, while the investigation cleared him, the old 350 lb lady was charging at him with a butcher knife in her kitchen in Bed Sty, cracked out, holding her kids hand on the stove, it's ugly and the only cases we get to see on tv or in the paper, are so biased and have been hand picked to glorify or degrade leo's, when you see a hundred joel steinbergs that get away, you start to loose the passion for the job, and start taking out that frustration on whoever is close to you. New york crime stats are total bullcrap, if they documented the cases that I heard about alone they would be off the grid. And the NY press has their own agenda, none of which is to give you the facts.
