Putting the Crim­i­nal Back in Crim­i­nal Justice

Hats off to the John Jay Col­lege of Crim­i­nal Jus­tice who made this month’s most sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to ensur­ing CUNY’s endur­ing track record of cook­ing the books. A recently released audit by the State Comptroller’s Office finds that a hand­ful of CUNY col­leges aren’t both­er­ing to report cam­pus felonies. John Jay leads the way, fail­ing to report nine­teen of twenty felonies, fol­lowed closely behind by Queens, Baruch, Hunter and Medgar Evers Col­leges, who col­lec­tively buried a whop­ping 73 per­cent of cam­pus crimes dur­ing the period under State review. Accord­ing to the Gothamist, “John Jay admin­is­tra­tors are also accused of keep­ing two sets of crime logs, one cre­ated two weeks before audi­tors arrived.”