Q&A
Challenges in providing comprehensive guidance for fraud cases
1:27:20
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NYPD officials and the Department for the Aging Commissioner discuss the challenges in providing comprehensive guidance for fraud cases due to their complex and varied nature.
- The complexity and variety of fraud cases make it difficult to provide a one-size-fits-all guide
- NYPD aims to simplify the reporting process for victims
- Emphasis on walking victims through the process individually based on their specific case
- Importance of partnerships between NYPD and community organizations in supporting older adults
- The more documentation and evidence provided, the better chance of solving the crime
Julie Morrill
1:27:20
Besides everything that we just us about crime prevention and everything.
1:27:27
The issue here is that it's so complex, and there are so many different ways.
1:27:32
Obviously,
John Holt
1:27:33
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Julie Morrill
1:27:33
lot of this we're talking about is various frauds in person online over the phone.
1:27:38
Everything like that.
1:27:39
There is no one good comprehensive way to describe everything that they could have to bring.
1:27:46
And we wouldn't want to confuse them by putting them putting all of that out there upfront.
1:27:52
We wanna protect them as much as we can up front.
1:27:54
But once they have unfortunately been the victim of a fraud, it shouldn't look like the tax code to try to report.
1:28:02
They should come in, and we will walk them through it, and we will see what it is that happen to them what we might need as proofs, as evidence in in order to move forward with with the investigation.
1:28:15
We we I'm just referring to the start now.
1:28:19
I'm I'm sure chief Savino could go in more depths if you want in regards to the the, you know, the fulsome investigation.
1:28:28
But the but we wouldn't wanna confuse them upfront by saying what all they might need because it varies as widely as these scams do.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
1:28:38
And that's the beauty of the partnership in that the resource center and those staff and as well as some of our community partners.
1:28:46
That we have.
1:28:47
The 8 elder abuse programs throughout the city are there also to help the individual navigate.
1:28:54
So it's not, you know, it's not only one door.
1:28:57
It's there's several doors where we can support the older adult particularly those who are going forward to make pressing charges or taking the case forward.
1:29:08
That's particularly important to us.
Jason Savino
1:29:10
And and that's really the beauty of this relationship.
1:29:13
Right?
1:29:13
Because we all hold pieces to the puzzle.
1:29:16
But in investigatively, it goes without saying the more documentation, the more proof that we have, the better chance we have in solving this crime, you know, whether it plays the motive, description, physical evidence, forensics, or what have you.
1:29:31
Anything we can adds pieces to our puzzle our investigative puzzle, if you will, and adds pieces to to ultimately solve that crime.
1:29:40
So Sometimes we do ask for as much as possible, but that being said, whatever we have, we're gonna follow those leads, take them as far as we can go, and do everything we can to solve that crime.
