A city office charged with safeguarding against fraud, corruption and waste is pursuing fewer investigations of financial crimes, records show.
The drop — down 70 percent during Mayor Lovely Warren’s administration — comes as other measures, including internal audits, employee suspensions and arrests, also have dipped.
Consider:
► Investigations involving financial loss have dropped from an average of 18.5 yearly prior to Warren taking office, to 5.4 during her tenure, city budget records show. Other types of investigations, including favoritism, violations of policies, unprofessional conduct, are not broken out, and totals have not been tracked.
► Audits have dipped from an average of 15.3 to 12.2, records…
