CM Wong on Transit District 20 captain falsification investigation

This question pertains to Transit District 20's captain.

On March 2025, a captain who headed Transit District 20 in Jamaica was transferred for allegedly encouraging the falsification of crime reports to downplay serious crimes.

My question is, yes or no answer, is there investigation to this incident?

Yes.

Okay, was it complete?

The matter is pending.

It's a pending disciplinary matter.

Okay, so this is still ongoing until...

Yes.

Okay.

Will he be disciplined as far as you know or that's...

Again, it's a pending disciplinary matter.

Okay.

But a news report on his transfer last March did say that the department confirmed it has audited the transit district's crime reports.

I'd like to request that you share this audit report with the office.

Can we get that?

Well, again, you asked for a variety of a number of different data sets.

And, again, we're going to work with your office to get the data that you requested.

Yes, but this is specifically to Transit District 20's captain.

So just to be clear, and to the extent you're asking for information about, you know, audit numbers, complaints to review, that sort of thing, we will get you that information.

I just want to be clear.

To the extent you're asking for, I'm not sure that you are, but if you're asking for information that goes to a particular ongoing disciplinary matter, right, I want to be careful about that, right?

Literally, it's a pending matter.

So we would not be, to the extent you're asking for anything that goes to, like, a pending matter.

We might not be able to provide that, but I do think we can definitely provide to you, again, if you're asking about, you know, data on numbers audited, error rate, that sort of thing.

But on this case, this is about his alleged conduct of falsifying crime reports.

And again, if you're asking for...

Number of complaints.

reviewed or errors found in connection with a particular precinct or transit district, we can accommodate that.

I just want to be clear, again, I'm not sure we disagree, I just want to be clear that to the extent there's a request that goes to a pending disciplinary matter, that involves all sorts of other issues and we want to be careful about that.

But in terms of the data you're requesting, I think we can make that work.

Okay, thank you.