(Did you know?) In the year 1994 about 76 out of the 131 of child fatalities and about 48,358 of the 128,111 abuses were related to the children belonging to New York City. (Chesworth, 1995-1996) A national emergency was declared in the first report of US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect published in 1990. During 1995 the Board indicated its empirical findings, reporting that there are about 3 million reports of child abuse and neglect, in respect of about 2 million children; about 1 million substantiated incidents; 141, 700 number of serious injuries and approximately 2000 child abuse fatalities in the New York City. (The Reform Plan: Chapter One: Executive Summary) Recent statistics show that in the year 2001 there have been above 45,000 cases of child abuse being estimated in New York City. (New York Child Abuse and Neglect: Identifying and Reporting) In the year 2002, about 66,686 of children were abused in New York City and about 14 to 15 out of every 1,000 children have been found to be abused here. (About Child Abuse).

             2. Discuss what the NYPD can do; has done, or in general what is being done or can be done to decrease the number of cases.

             Irrespective of the heavy incidence of cases in the city the level of cooperation between the New York City Police Department and the Child Welfare Officials in the five counties are observed to be the lowest in the state. The revelations made by the New York City prosecutors, NYPD officials, Child Welfare Agency case workers, Human Resources Administration leveled plethora of excuses for such lack of cooperation among themselves and the law even does not allow such cooperation. NYPD Detective Fredrick Raymond Layne has investigated child abuse cases ever since 1985, revealed that the police notification seriously inhibited the investigation of child abuse reports. The detectives most of the time do not receive the child abuse reports for days and weeks after the abuse is first reported.