Michael Castelluccio of Preserve Ramapo is calling a mailer sent out by the Ramapo Town Supervisor’s office a fraud. The flier, sent out to all residences in the town, claims Ramapo is the safest place in the country to live. Preserve Ramapo is calling this nothing more than “marketing fiction” coming from Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence’s office.
This piece…goes beyond the usual attempts to dupe the public. It, in fact, places the academic reputation of a publisher at risk, and, worse, it portrays the FBI as an organization that doesn’t have a clue when it comes to crime statistics.
The recently posted crime statistics for Ramapo on the state online index don’t seem to line up with the fraudulent claims from the Supervisor that the FBI thinks the Town is the “safest place in the country.” The data for 2008 (the most recent year for which the state has complete data) shows an increase in every crime category kept by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, from car theft (up 21%) to a frightening increase in forcible rape (up 500%).
Read more at the Preserve Ramapo Web site.
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