Brooklyn, NY – A Brooklyn precinct is under investigation for manipulating statistics to make its cops look like better crimefighters, the Daily News has learned.

Two probes are centered around whether Bedford-Stuyvesant’s 81st Precinct recorded felonies as misdemeanors and refused to take complaints from victims – all in an effort to drive down the crime rate, sources said.

And the allegations came from one of the precinct’s officers.

Officer Adrian Schoolcraft shared his suspicions with the Internal Affairs Bureau and the Quality Assurance Division, the NYPD unit responsible for maintaining the integrity of crime stats.

Schoolcraft told The News the top brass are so concerned with numbers that one precinct lieutenant is known as “The Shredder” because he’s often spotted destroying documents.

NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne confirmed the Quality Assurance Division probe. Other police sources confirmed both investigations.

Schoolcraft gave The News the names of 14 crime victims from notes he took at the precinct from late 2008 to October 2009.

In interviews with The News, five crime victims appeared to back up Schoolcraft’s allegations.

One man said he was beaten bloody and robbed – and then told by cops he was the victim of a “lost property” case because he didn’t get a good look at the suspects.

Another man said he was berated by the precinct’s commanding officer, Deputy Inspector Steven Mauriello, for trying to report a stolen car.

“It’s just not right,” said Schoolcraft, a seven-year member of the NYPD. “They are taking advantage of people. A lot of [crime victims] don’t know any better.

Schoolcraft has big problems of his own.

He received a poor work review early last year – his supervisors cited his need for “constant supervision” – and was stripped of his gun and put on desk duty in April after telling an NYPD doctor he thought work stress caused his stomach and chest pains.

He has been suspended since Halloween, when supervisors said he left work an hour early without permission.

Police went to his Queens home that night to bring him back to the precinct stationhouse, where he faced suspension for going AWOL. Schoolcraft refused to accompany the cops, and the confrontation apparently escalated.

He was deemed unstable and committed to a psychiatric unit at Jamaica Center for more than six days against his will, he said.

Schoolcraft has not returned to duty and lives with his father upstate. He insisted the NYPD is trying to make him look bad because of his complaints about the precinct’s recordkeeping practices.

Mauriello, the precinct’s commanding officer since 2008, called Schoolcraft’s allegations “atrocious” before referring all inquires to the NYPD’s press office.

(Source: NY Daily News)