REMARKS
NYPD's efforts to identify and address crimes against older adults
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Captain Papavlasopoulos outlines the NYPD's approach to identifying and addressing crimes against older adults. He describes the role of consequential liaisons in precincts and the process of reviewing crime reports to identify older victims.
- NYPD has 77 precincts with dedicated consequential liaisons.
- Daily review of crime reports to identify victims aged 60 and above.
- Immediate outreach is conducted to victims, providing crime victim services and referrals to the Department of Aging.
- The department analyzes crime patterns to determine outreach strategies.
- 27,100 initiatives were conducted citywide, varying based on specific crime trends in different areas.
- A specific example of a roofing scam in Queens North is mentioned, where an older adult was scammed out of $50,000.
Spiro Papavlasopoulos
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Hi.
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My name is Captain Palbasalbas.
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So, obviously, we have 77 precincts throughout the city where our our consequential liaisons are dedicated to serve the city.
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Part of their duties and their responsibilities just to go through highlighting some of the few that they do is the day to day activities, they reviews our crime reports on a daily basis.
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Part of those crime reporting reports that they review, they look to identify certain ages On file with our patrol guide, it's 65 and above.
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However, with the crime prevention division, we look at anyone who's a victim of a crime 60 years and above.
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As soon as we start identifying any victims 60 years and above, we conduct immediate outreach to that victim.
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When we conduct immediate outreach, we provide certain services certain crime victim services.
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We also also refer them to the Department of Aging for more resources that the police department does not offer.
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However, as far as certain scams are concerned, certain crimes are concerned, In addition to those report that they look at, those 61 reports that we have, we look at current current crime patterns throughout the city.
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Our current crime patterns throughout the city actually determine some of the type of outreach that we're gonna do with specific areas.
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So when you mentioned 27100 initiatives were conducted, those are 27100 initiatives that were conducted citywide.
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Some of those initiatives vary depending on the actual crimes that we've seen.
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So, for example, Queen's North in the confines of the 104, we saw there was a trend of a roofing scam where the victim was a older adult victim.
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She was scammed out of $50,000 that encompassed individuals that actually approached the older adult while she was on her porch.
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The gentleman stated that there might be a leak on the roof.
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They offered the free services to go and check.
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While they went up up on top of the actual roof, they actually damaged the roof purposely, convincing the actual victim that there's an actual damage to the roof.
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At that point, the perpetrators were able to withdraw $50,000 by her actually giving that money to the actual perpetrators.
Crystal Hudson
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How do you prove that they damage that roof?
