Sounds to us this detective didn't do too much detecting

A detective in Mayor Bloomberg's "private army" is under scrutiny for closing a case as well as his very detective work when he declared Brooklyn resident Mathieu Lefevre "at fault" for his death in a biking accident in 2011.

First a good idea would be to go here and watch the video for yourself and come back here...

Let's see what we know and what the detective said in his report. NYPD Accident Investigation Squad, Detective Gerard Sheehan said Lefevre was at fault because "the bicyclist is subjected to the vehicle traffic law when there is no marked bicycle lane and should not have been passing on the right while on the one lane roadway." BUT NYC law says this: Section 1123 expressly allows passing on the right when there is enough unobstructed room in the roadway for two lanes of traffic. So Detective Sheehan, strike one. Strike two would be NOT noting that the truck that was turning right has NO turn signal, something you failed to note. That clearly would have an impact in this case. Also apparently not detected by Sheehan was this: Moreover, the truck driver violated the law not only in failing to signal his turn, but in failing to make the turn as close as practicable to the right-hand curb, as he was required to do under VTL Section 1160(a).

There's more coming but right now the mold of sloppy "get this off my desk" is being set it sure sounds like.

Lefevre's family sued the NYPD to get ALL the documentation from the case, something the NYPD said they did, until they didn't. And what of all these videos that are now contradicting Sheehan's account? Well in New York City there is an answer for that too friends:

According to Vaccaro's filing, the NYPD is still withholding photos of the crash scene. First the family was told the AIS camera was broken, so no photos were obtained, but it turned out that photos of the crash scene were just "misplaced" by Detective Sheehan for months. They were finally provided to the Lefevre family because of the FOIL request, but Vaccaro says there are sequential gaps in the photos' file numbers, which indicates there are additional photos that have been withheld or destroyed.

The NYPD is also withholding the officers' memo books that were used during the investigation. "There were 14 officers involved in the investigation that was conducted," Vaccaro tells us. "And police officers of the rank of sergeant or below are required to keep memo books. We asked for them in November, and they still have not released them."

It's an important read kids, so follow that link above and educate yourself and then start asking YOUR city council and local PD what their thinking on sharing the road with bikers is. Don't be an unfortunate biker like Mathieu Lefevre nor a victim to this ongoing chicanery like his family is going through trying simply to find out if an actual investigation went on or a predetermined decision was conveniently placed in a file.