$10 for an accident report

trainsmoke deleon

allow me to relay a grievance:

two days ago i arrive at my car and see that a police accident report has been filled out and left under my wiper. i circle my car and can find no (new) damage. i call the fightin' 78th to get the scoop and I'm told that to get the report I need to bring a money order for $10 to the precinct. what gives? why? i told the nice lady that that was a racket and a scam I didn't wish to fall for. she insisted it wasn't a scam. would have been great if she agreed. now i'm damn curious what happened to my car, but not interested in shelling out any dough to find out.
lame.

ltjbukem

this happened to me like 3 yrs ago in fort greene. had my car broken into and in order to get the police report had to fork over $10.

i guess cops these days don't count filling out police reports as part of their job description...no wonder they're known as PIGS.

sorry kwac. no offense. i guess the $10 is an administrative fee.

paraderest

ltjbukem wrote: this happened to me like 3 yrs ago in fort greene. had my car broken into and in order to get the police report had to fork over $10.

i guess cops these days don't count filling out police reports as part of their job description...no wonder they're known as PIGS.

sorry kwac. no offense. i guess the $10 is an administrative fee.

Come on, that's uncalled for. The cops working the street have absolutely no control over how much the city charges you for copies of accident reports. It's a ridiculous amount of money for a photocopy, I agree but there is nothing I can do to change that. Talk to Mr. Bloomberg. They took an accident report when something was stolen from you car? Normally it would just be a complaint report. Copies of complaint reports are even obtained from the precinct.

Trainsmoke, I would go down there and just ask to see a copy of the accident report so you can find out what happened. You're not actually asking to take a copy just to know what the hell happened. If no luck with the "always eager to please" civilians I would suggest asking to speak to the highway safety officer of community affairs officer.

trainsmoke deleon

i asked if she could just read it me, or if i went down there, if i could just read it. she said no. how does one get a hold of the highway safety officer or community affairs officer?

paraderest

Trainsmoke DeLeon wrote: i asked if she could just read it me, or if i went down there, if i could just read it. she said no. how does one get a hold of the highway safety officer or community affairs officer?

You could always try the telephone.