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Bloomberg's just phoning it in on damning 911 report. Says he didn't read it, so we give him a sample
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Far too much is being made of Mayor Bloomberg’s statement about a consultant’s report on the city’s revamped, $2 billion 911 emergency call system.

“I didn’t even bother to read it,” he said of the document, which runs, after all, 133 pages and is packed with details — humorless ones, at that — that tend to clutter the mind when you’re yukking it up with the “Saturday Night Live” cast.

This chief-executive-on-the-go needs help. Since he seems surprisingly unsupported by aides who could, say, tweet him the highlights, herewith selections from the “City of New York 911 Call Processing Review” that Hizzoner might be able to glance over between breakfast at the Viand Cafe and meatloaf in the mansion:


l “NYPD call takers did not receive adequate training for (Unified Call Taking) responsibilities and are not proficient at handling FDNY-related activity.”


l “Statistical information provided to City Hall management to demonstrate the success of the (Unified Call Taking) project contained errors.”


l “NYPD and FDNY call takers consume valuable time asking duplicative questions and taking identical actions for the same 911 caller.”

That’s enough for now. There’s only so much reading one man can be expected to do.

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