The NYPD Tapes Confirmed

[Blue_Tires]

In 2010, The Village Voice produced a five-part series, the "NYPD Tapes," about a cop who secretly taped his fellow New York Police Department officers.

Privacy PolicyCancelContinue For more than two years, Adrian Schoolcraft secretly recorded every roll call at the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn and captured his superiors urging police officers to do two things in order to manipulate the "stats" that the department is under pressure to produce: Officers were told to arrest people who were doing little more than standing on the street, but they were also encouraged to disregard actual victims of serious crimes who wanted to file reports.

Arresting bystanders made it look like the department was efficient, while artificially reducing the amount of serious crime made the commander look good.

In October 2009, Schoolcraft met with NYPD investigators for three hours and detailed more than a dozen cases of crime reports being manipulated in the district. Three weeks after that meeting—which was supposed to have been kept secret from Schoolcraft's superiors—his precinct commander and a deputy chief ordered Schoolcraft to be dragged from his apartment and forced into the Jamaica Hospital psychiatric ward for six days.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-03-07/news/the-nypd-tapes-confirmed/

[rhett o rick]

1. Why didnt the "liberal media" pick up on this?

rhetorical question

[CitizenK9]

7. Officer Had Backup: Secret Tapes

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/nyregion/whistle-blower-police-officer-had-backup-secret-recordings.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=adrian%20schoolcraft&st=cse

+ 2 others in NYT

[socialindependocrat]

2. Shouldn't there be a "Whistle Blower" protection case going on here?

We are talking about Oct 2009

[X_Digger]

3. The truly scary thing? CompStat was copied by police departments everywhere-

the system that ties promotions to numbers.

How many other places are doing the same kind of number futzing just so that some commander gets his bonus / promotion?!?

[TheMadMonk]

5. Pretty much all of them. The same all of them that have been doing...

...this sort of statistic manipulating BS for decades.

[Stuart G]

4. Thanks For Posting, k and r..nt

[marble falls]

6. This American Life did a great segment on this, using those tapes .....

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http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent

Really well worth the listening to.

[indepat]

8. Geez! Wonder where the buck stops? Surely not with his

royal honor.

[Taverner]

9. The spirit of Serpico lives on

[Oilwellian]

10. Could this be why crime numbers are down?

Is CompStat used nationwide?

CompStat," he says. "This is the driving force behind the NYPD's obsession with numbers."

Norinsberg says his office has been "flooded with e-mails from other officers who have reported downgrading and non-reporting of crime merely to pad their commander's stats."